1st Edition
Water Policy, Imagination and Innovation Interdisciplinary Approaches
Introduction: Water policy and the Anthropocene
Stephen Harris , Robyn Bartel, Jacqueline Williams and Louise Noble
Chapter 1: Blue sky thinking in water governance: Understanding the role of the imagination in Australian water policy
Louise Noble, Stephen Harris and Graham Marshall
Chapter 2: Aboriginal Rainmakers: A twentieth century phenomenon
Lorina L. Barker
Chapter 3: ‘Like Manna from Heaven?’: Just Water, History and the Philosophical Justification of Water Property Rights
A. J. Walsh
Chapter 4: Progressing from experience-based to evidence-based water resource management: Exploring the use of ‘Best Available Science’ to integrate science and policy
Darren S. Ryder
Chapter 5: Accounting for water: from past practices to future possibilities
Liz Charpleix
Chapter 6: Rethinking the Value of Water: Stewardship, Sustainability, and a Better Future.
Michael Allen Fox
Chapter 7: Stewardship arrangements for water: An evaluation of reasonable use in sustainable catchment or watershed management systems.
Mark Shepheard
Chapter 8: Water Knowledge Systems
Jacqueline Williams, Patricia Please and Lorina L. Barker
Chapter 9: Water policy for resilient agri-environmental landscapes: lessons from the Australian experience
Richard Stayner and Melissa Parsons
Chapter 10: Waterworks: Developing Behaviourally Effective Policies to Manage Household Water Use
Donald W. Hine, Lynette McLeod, and Aaron B. Driver
Chapter 11: Quixotic water policy and the prudence of place-based voices
Robyn Bartel, Louise Noble and Wendy Beck
Chapter 12: Heterotic water policy futures using place agency, vernacular knowledge, transformative learning and syncretic governance
Robyn Bartel, Louise Noble and Wendy Beck
Coda
Jacqueline Williams, Robyn Bartel, Stephen Harris and Louise Noble
Biography
Robyn Bartel is Associate Professor in Geography and Planning at the University of New England, Australia.
Louise Noble is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in English at the University of New England, Australia.
Jacqueline Williams is Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law, University of New England, Australia.
Stephen Harris is Lecturer in English at the University of New England, Australia.
