Environmental discourses and water law: a case study of the regulation of the murray-darling basin
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...
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| 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 environmental 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-00468dfc831143a5a64753eb825544092022-12-22T01:33:20ZdeuUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaSequência: Estudos Juridicos e Politicos0101-95622177-70552019-12-014283478610.5007/2177-7055.2019v41n83p4733938Environmental discourses and water law: a case study of the regulation of the murray-darling basinSally Ashton0Elena Aydos1Newcastle UniversityNewcastle UniversityThe 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 environmental 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.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/sequencia/article/view/72372water regulationenvironmental discoursesmurray-darling basin |
| spellingShingle | Sally Ashton Elena Aydos Environmental discourses and water law: a case study of the regulation of the murray-darling basin Sequência: Estudos Juridicos e Politicos water regulation environmental discourses murray-darling basin |
| title | Environmental discourses and water law: a case study of the regulation of the murray-darling basin |
| title_full | Environmental discourses and water law: a case study of the regulation of the murray-darling basin |
| title_fullStr | Environmental discourses and water law: a case study of the regulation of the murray-darling basin |
| title_full_unstemmed | Environmental discourses and water law: a case study of the regulation of the murray-darling basin |
| title_short | Environmental discourses and water law: a case study of the regulation of the murray-darling basin |
| title_sort | environmental discourses and water law a case study of the regulation of the murray darling basin |
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