- Title
- Environmental discourses and water law: a case study of the regulation of the Murray-Darling Basin
- Creator
- Ashton, Sally; Aydos, Elena
- Relation
- Seqüência: Estudos Jurídicos e Políticos Vol. 41, Issue 83, p. 47-86
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2177-7055.2019v41n83p47
- Publisher
- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina * Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Direit
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The Murray-Darling Basin, in south-eastern Australia, comprises 14 per cent of Australia’s geography. This paper examines some of the historical and contemporary discourses that have been deployed in the last 120 years in managing the complex challenges of the Basin. Differently to prior Indigenous practices, prevailing nvironmental discourses in this period have highlighted the disconnect between humans and their environment. Whilst ecologically Sustainable Development underpins the objects of the Water Act 2007 (Cth), it is evident that, in fact, it is an economic rationalism discourse that has been deployed to regulate environmental outcomes through the marketisation of water rights.
- Subject
- water regulation; environmental discourses; Murry-Darling Basin
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1452194
- Identifier
- uon:44384
- Identifier
- ISSN:0101-9562
- Rights
- © Copyright and License to Use: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons License. can share, adapt, for any purpose, as long as you attribute the authorship of the work, provide a link to the license, and indicate whether changes have been made. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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