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The determinants of perceptions of fairness in the allocation of water to multiple uses
Author(s) -
Syme Geoffrey J.,
Nancarrow Blair E.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/97wr01504
Subject(s) - consistency (knowledge bases) , perception , empirical research , positive economics , public economics , social psychology , management science , actuarial science , economics , sociology , psychology , computer science , mathematics , statistics , artificial intelligence , neuroscience
Five water allocation case studies were examined from four states in Australia. Issues varied from allocation between irrigators to that of 12 competing uses. The attitudinal and philosophical determinants of the fairness of the decision making for case studies separately and collectively were determined for a water‐literate community. Agreement with general philosophical attitudes, rated importance of philosophical principles in decision making in each case study, and attitudes towards localized issues could, in combination, clearly discriminate people's differential perceptions of the fairness. It was also found that there was consistency in the importance placed on philosophical principles across the case studies. These principles can be used as a basis for empirical community evaluation of the fairness of decision making in water allocation.