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Title: | A Critique of Water Security in Australia, China and Japan | Contributor(s): | Crawford, Peter John (author); Von Strokirch, Karin (supervisor) ; Walsh, Adrian (supervisor) | Conferred Date: | 2021-03-02 | Copyright Date: | 2020 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30418 | Abstract: | This thesis provides a critique of how Australia, China and Japan are addressing water security through their policies, programs, major projects and legal measures. An assessment framework assures consistency in analysis, facilitates comparisons and builds a comprehensive picture of water security in each country by examination of primary and secondary sources. Major river systems and other water sources have been greatly modified in each country to meet the needs of cities, industries and agriculture as well as opportunities for water-based economic development. This has often seriously diminished the health of these vital systems, their ability to continue to meet current and future water demands and to deliver water services. It is widely recognised that water security is critical for human and environmental health, food, industrial and energy production, but official documentation seldom explores these linkages in any of the states. While public statements and policy documents in all three countries refer to sustainable development and integrated water management, the analysis shows that there is little if any understanding in the current governing regimes that ecological and environmental health are critical ingredients of water security. In fact, this research has found situations where deterioration in national water security not only threatens human and environmental welfare but could if unchecked undermine future national prosperity and stability. This situation is most acute in large heavily populated regions of China and in the Murray-Darling Basin, food bowl of Australia. | Publication Type: | Thesis Doctoral | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160603 Comparative Government and Politics 160605 Environmental Politics 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440803 Comparative government and politics 440805 Environmental politics 440807 Government and politics of Asia and the Pacific |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 920107 Hearing, Vision, Speech and Their Disorders 960399 Climate and Climate Change not elsewhere classified 960799 Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards not elsewhere classified |
HERDC Category Description: | T2 Thesis - Doctorate by Research |
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Appears in Collections: | School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Thesis Doctoral |
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