83 – “Water Resource Policy” workshop
Deb Peterson and I have organised a pre-conference workshop on water resource policy for the coming conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists. It will be on 12 August 2006. Here is an ad for the workshop.
IAAE 2006 Preconference Workshop
Water Resource Policy
Water resources are high on the resource policy agenda throughout the world. There is a wide range of policy problems that governments continue to struggle with. This workshop brings together an outstanding program of international speakers to address some of the key policy issues in water resources around the world. Themes to be addressed include: water trading and prices; water and China (a joint session with the China workshop); water quality and environmental issues; and institutional arrangements. The workshop will include discussions by a panel of water experts. The workshop should be of value to policy makers and major water-resource users, as well as to economic researchers.
Date: Saturday 12 August 2006
Venue: Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre, Gold Coast Hwy, Broadbeach.
Registration: register online or download printable registration form at www.iaae2006.org
Program
| Time | Title | Speaker |
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| 8:00 | Welcome and Introduction | Deborah Peterson (Productivity Commission) |
| 8:10 | Water Trading and Prices | Chair: Donna Brennan (REAP Research) |
| Groundwater Irrigation in North India: Institutions and Markets | J.V. Meenakshi (IFPRI, HarvestPlus) |
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| Questions and Discussion | ||
| Water Trading and Brokerage Mechanisms for Developing Countries | Mark Rosegrant (IFPRI) |
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| Questions and Discussion | ||
| Water Trading in New Zealand – Theory, Practice and Potential | Irene Parminter (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, New Zealand) |
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| Questions and Discussion | ||
| 9:45 | Break | |
| 10:15 | Water and China | Chair: Neil Byron (Productivity Commission) |
| Evolution of China’s Water Management—Overview | Jinxia Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
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| Is China Exploiting Its Groundwater Resources? An Analysis of the Demand for Water | Richard Howitt (UC Davis) |
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| Improving Allocative Water Efficiency in the Yellow River Basin, Northern China: A Study of Water Trade and the Return to Water Rights | Anna Heaney (ABARE) |
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| Discussant | Qin Fu (Chinese Academy of Agric. Sciences) |
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| Discussant | Zhanyi Gao (Ministry Water Resources, China) |
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| Discussant | Noel Gollehon (US Department of Agriculture) |
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| General Discussion | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 1.00 | Remarks from Malcolm Thompson for the premier sponsor, National Water Commission | |
| 1:10 | Water Quality and Environmental Issues | Chair: Malcolm Thompson (NWC) |
| Environmental flows | John Quiggin (U Queensland) |
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| Questions and Discussion | ||
| Salinity and Drainage Management in Irrigated Agriculture | Keith Knapp (UC Riverside) |
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| Questions and Discussion | ||
| Protecting Water Quality | Dave Sunding (UC Berkeley) |
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| Questions and Discussion | ||
| 2:45 | Break | |
| 3:15 | Institutional arrangements | Chair: David Pannell (Uni of Western Australia) |
| Economic aspects of infrastructure provision for rural water supply | Steve Beare (ABARE) |
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| Questions and Discussion | ||
| 3:50 | Panel Discussion | Chair: Peter Cullen |
| David Zilberman (UC Berkeley) Wendy Craik (CEO of Murray-Darling Basin Commission) Wilfrid Legg (OECD) Siwa Msangi (IFPRI) |
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| General Discussion | ||
| 4:45 | Rapporteur: Mike Young (CSIRO Land and Water) | |
| 5:00 | Close |
David Pannell, The University of Western Australia