Private sector institutions utilise many different business methods, some of which canselectively be adapted for use by organisations outside the private sector, to the benefitof their service delivery responsibilities. But the best of the appropriate practices fromthe private sector have often...

The interannual variability of streamflow in Australia is greater than elsewhere in the world. Reliable forecasts of streamflow would go a long way towards improving the management of water resources systems by enabling them to cope better with the high inter-annual variability. In the first...

Public water utilities have increasingly turned to increasing block rate price structures to reduce water consumption and signal the high environmental costs of water supply. Hsu evaluates the impact of a new and substantially higher price block added to the existing block rate price structure...

To support moves towards more sustainable modes of natural resource management, the research community has been engaged in an evaluation of paradigms, theories and methods which might provide useful and usable insights into such a complex problem set. A particularly influential family of...

"Water is central to the economy of Swaziland as it contributes significantly to GDP via agriculture export earnings and basic livelihoods of people. Infrastructure like roads, electricity and potable water are expanding around this sector. The health sector and communications are also expanding...

"Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has often been interpreted and implemented in a way that is only really suited to countries with the most developed water infrastructures and management capacities. While sympathetic to many of the criticisms leveled at the IWRM concept and...

"The oil and gas sector is returning to the Mackenzie Delta–Beaufort Sea region of Canada’s western Arctic after a decade-long absence. If brought into production, the hydrocarbon resources in this region could generate significant long-term economic and social benefits for Canadians in...

"This paper presents an assessment of the cost of water scarcity in Cyprus, today and in the next 20 years, taking into account the effect of projected climate change in the region. It focuses on the residential sector, accounting also for tourism and industry. Using a simple demand function,...

"We propose a regional cooperative water management system that combines aspects of a nonprofit regional utility and a representative governing body. The conceptual basis is temporal economic efficiency. To help the utility make acceptable management decisions, a representative body of water...

"Watershed governance typically relies on more or less formal inter-organizational networks whose structure is likely to influence the success of cooperation. An emerging body of literature seeks to analyze the role of networks in natural resource management. This paper aims at contributing to...