Irrigation Development in the Fitzroy Basin - Assessing the Environmental Trade-Offs

45th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, 22nd- 25th January 2001, Adelaide, South Australia

19 Pages Posted: 30 Jul 2009

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Adam James Loch

University of South Australia - CRMA, School of Commerce, UniSA

John Rolfe

Central Queensland University (CQUniversity) - School of Business & Law

Jill Windle

Central Queensland University

Jeff Bennett

Crawford School of Public Policy

Date Written: January 24, 2001

Abstract

The Fitzroy basin in Central Queensland is one of the largest in Australia. There is increasing demand for water resources, particularly for irrigating cotton and other broadacre crops. The Queensland Government, through the Water Allocation and Management Plan (WAMP) for the Fitzroy, is identifying where the limits to future development might be set. This paper describes the development of a choice modelling application to assess the environmental and social tradeoffs that might be associated with increased irrigation development. Of particular interest are the framing effects associated with valuing impacts in separate sub-catchments compared to the basin as a whole and the calculation of willingness to accept values for floodplain development.

Keywords: Fitzroy basin, choice modeling, framing effects, environmental valuation

Suggested Citation

Loch, Adam James and Rolfe, John and Windle, Jill and Bennett, Jeff W, Irrigation Development in the Fitzroy Basin - Assessing the Environmental Trade-Offs (January 24, 2001). 45th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, 22nd- 25th January 2001, Adelaide, South Australia, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1440626 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1440626

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John Rolfe

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Jill Windle

Central Queensland University ( email )

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Jeff W Bennett

Crawford School of Public Policy ( email )

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