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Northern Australia Irrigation Futures - Overview

The Northern Australian Irrigation Futures (NAIF) project has worked closely with the WA, NT, QLD and Australian governments, researchers and stakeholders, to deliver new knowledge, tools and processes to support debate and decision making regarding irrigation in northern Australia.

Northern Australia Irrigation Futures - Final Report Appendices

Providing new knowledge, tools and processes to support debate and decision making regarding irrigation in northern Australia

These appendices form part of and should be read in conjunction with the Northern Australia Irrigation Futures (NAIF) National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) CDS23 final report, which contains a synthesised view of all the NAIF work carried out…

Northern Australia Irrigation Futures - Final Technical Report

Providing new knowledge, tools and processes to support debate and decision making regarding irrigation in northern Australia

Northern Australia holds an iconic status for many Australians. The interplay between the landscape, rivers, groundwater and strongly monsoonal weather patterns has resulted in unique and diverse ecological systems that will need special attention to…

Northern Australia Irrigation Futures - Final Report

Providing new knowledge, tools and processes to support debate and decision making regarding irrigation in northern Australia

Northern Australia holds an iconic status for many Australians. The interplay between the landscape, rivers, groundwater and strongly monsoonal weather patterns has resulted in unique and diverse ecological systems that will need special attention…

Northern Australia Irrigation Futures

Providing new knowledge, tools and processes to support debate and decision making regarding irrigation in Northern Australia

Providing new knowledge, tools, and processes to support debate and decision making regarding irrigation in northern Australia

Natural resource buybacks and their use to secure environmental flows

Governments have committed to investigating the use of market based instruments such as ‘buybacks’ to source water for environmental needs. Buybacks are common in some natural resource sectors and have been used in the water sector as well. However, there is limited experience or research in Australia to investigate how buybacks could be structured. There has been little focus to date on alternatives to the outright purchase of entitlements, such as the buying of ‘partial’ (more)...