ORCID Profile
0000-0003-1374-9128
Current Organisation
University of Tasmania
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Sociology | Natural Resource Management | Social Change | Environment And Resource Economics
Land and water management | Environmental and resource evaluation not elsewhere classified |
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-07-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2014.05.024
Abstract: Increasingly, water agencies and utilities have an obligation to consider the broad environmental impacts associated with investments. To aid in understanding water cycle interdependencies when making urban water supply investment decisions, an ecosystem services typology was augmented with the concept of integrated water resources management. This framework is applied to stormwater harvesting in a case study catchment in Adelaide, South Australia. Results show that this methodological framework can effectively facilitate systematic consideration and quantitative assessment of broad environmental impacts of water supply investments. Five ecosystem service impacts were quantified including provision of 1) urban recreational amenity, 2) regulation of coastal water quality, 3) salinity, 4) greenhouse gas emissions, and 5) support of estuarine habitats. This study shows that ignoring broad environmental impacts can underestimate ecosystem service benefits of water supply investments by a value of up to A$1.36/kL, or three times the cost of operating and maintenance of stormwater harvesting. Rigorous assessment of the public welfare impacts of water infrastructure investments is required to guide long-term optimal water supply investment decisions. Numerous challenges remain in the quantification of broad environmental impacts of a water supply investment including a lack of peer-reviewed studies of environmental impacts, aggregation of incommensurable impacts, potential for double-counting errors, uncertainties in available impact estimates, and how to determine the most suitable quantification technique.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-03-2016
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 07-2019
DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-07-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-06-2011
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Date: 12-2011
DOI: 10.2166/WST.2011.789
Abstract: Urban communities rely on a complex network of infrastructure assets to connect them to water resources. There is considerable capital investment required to maintain, upgrade and extend this infrastructure. As the remit of a water utility is broader than just financial considerations, infrastructure investment decisions must be made in light of environmental and societal issues. One way of facilitating this is to integrate consideration of externalities into decision making processes. This paper considers the concept of externalities from an asset management perspective. A case study is provided to show the practical implications to a water utility and asset managers. A framework for the inclusion of externalities in asset management decision making is also presented. The potential for application of the framework is highlighted through a brief consideration of its key elements.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-05-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-01-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-09-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-10-2008
Publisher: RFF Press
Date: 06-12-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2011.07.003
Abstract: This paper presents a hedonic property price model of rural land in a natural resource management region of the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia. In traditional hedonic models, the marginal value of environmental amenities is estimated using distance to or size of the environmental asset. The approach applied in this study offers the potential for a richer set of information, where environmental assets are described in terms of their 'recreational attractiveness'. The level of recreational attractiveness is represented as latent variables that are based on park facilities and recreational activities offered at each site. For a property in the study area that is 1 km away from the River Murray, moving half a kilometre closer will increase the property price by $245,000, holding every other variable constant at the mean. This value is magnified by $27,000 if the house is in an area where there is high river recreational attractiveness and drops by $14,000 if river recreational attractiveness is low. By including recreational quality indices in a typical hedonic framework that is corrected for spatial dependency, the model is able to capture how in iduals value environmental amenities around their homes based on the site's natural characteristics as well as recreational services.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-12-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-02-2023
Abstract: In response to the looming climate crisis, many countries are adopting technologies to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gases. However, national energy policies are often multiobjective and resolution deeply isive. The result is a policy trilemma between the energy mix and the trade‐offs with other policy objectives, including cost and reliability. Utilising a discrete choice experiment (DCE), the objective of this study is to explore Australian household preferences for alternative electricity contracts containing features reflecting changes in future energy policy. The first set of features include investments in renewable generation and community‐based energy storage. The second set of features reflect demand‐side management policies, including installing smart meters and consumption limits being imposed on households during peak demand. Two versions of the DCE were developed to obtain both willingness to pay and willingness to accept estimates for the same features. In line with the literature, differences in the two sets of estimates were observed, with the willingness to accept estimates being statistically larger for some features. These dollar value measures can be used to support public policy decision‐making – the choice of which depending on the context of the policy problem being considered.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-04-2015
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1002/IRD.189
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-12-2009
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-03-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-11-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-02-2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-04-2015
DOI: 10.1007/S00267-015-0471-7
Abstract: In an effort to increase the livability of its cities, public agencies in Australia are investing in green infrastructure to improve public health, reduce heat island effects and transition toward water sensitive urban design. In this paper, we present a simple and replicable approach to building a business case for green infrastructure. This approach requires much less time and resources compared to other methods for estimating the social and economic returns to society from such investments. It is a pragmatic, reasonably comprehensive approach that includes socio-demographic profile of potential users and catchment analysis to assess the economic value of community benefits of the investment. The approach has been applied to a case study area in the City of Brimbank, a western suburb of Greater Melbourne. We find that subject to a set of assumptions, a reasonable business case can be made. We estimate potential public benefits of avoided health costs of about AU$75,049 per annum and potential private benefits of AU$3.9 million. The project area is one of the most poorly serviced areas in the municipality in terms of quality open spaces and the potential beneficiaries are from relatively low income households with less than average health status and education levels. The values of cultural (recreational benefits, avoided health costs, and increased property values) and regulating (reduction in heat island effect and carbon sequestration) ecosystem services were quantified that can potentially offset annual maintenance costs.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-06-2016
DOI: 10.1093/AJAE/AAV022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Start Date: 06-2010
End Date: 06-2012
Amount: $367,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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