Optimising the National Benefits From Restoring Environmental Water Flows
Duration:
January 2016–January 2018
Funding source:
ARC DECRA Fellowship
Dr David Adamson, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
DE160100213
The project aims to evaluate strategies that may maximise national welfare from restoring environmental flows in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). The MDB water supply is characterised by prolonged droughts and flood events, and future climatic projections anticipate that these water supply events will intensify. As the uncertainty of future water supply increases, the known reliability of water rights alters trapping resources into unproductive areas. By determining how water users adapt to climate extremes, policy can maximise the benefits from water reform.
Total Amount $375,000