Water use and salinity in the MurrayÐDarling Basin: a state-contingent model

David Adamson, Thilak Mallawaarachchi and John Quiggin

No WP5M06, Murray-Darling Program Working Papers from Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland

Abstract: The MurrayÐDarling Basin comprises over 1 million square kilometres; it lies within four states and one territory; and over 12,800 gigalitres of irrigation water is used to produce over 40 per cent of the nation's gross value of agricultural production. The supply of water for irrigation is subject to climatic and policy uncertainty. The object of the present paper is to show how the linear and nonlinear programming models commonly used in modelling problems such as those arising in the MurrayÐDarling Basin may be adapted to incorporate a state-contingent representation of uncertainty.

Keywords: Murray; model; state-contingent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 Q25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-06
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