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Coase‐coloured Glasses and Rights Bundling: Why the Initial Specification of Water Rights in Volumetric Terms Matters
Author(s) -
Crase Lin,
Gawne Ben
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.245
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1759-3441
pISSN - 0812-0439
DOI - 10.1111/j.1759-3441.2011.00102.x
Subject(s) - coase theorem , recreation , tourism , resource (disambiguation) , focus (optics) , business , law and economics , natural resource economics , water resources , resource allocation , environmental economics , economics , environmental planning , political science , market economy , law , environmental science , computer science , finance , ecology , transaction cost , computer network , physics , optics , biology
One of the substantive accomplishes of water reform in Australia has been the creation of water markets to assist in the allocation and reallocation of the resource. As the necessity for effectively managing water to achieve environmental objectives becomes more overt, the structure of water rights requires attention. In this article, we argue that the heavy focus on the volumetric attributes of water disguises other important elements of water that are likely to be especially significant for environmental managers and other interests like tourism and recreation.