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1 Smith, S. (Ed.) 1999. The private sector in water: Competition and regulation. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 71p.
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2 Chapman, R.; Cuthbertson, S. 1999. Sydney's water - A suitable case for private treatment? In Smith, S. (Ed.), The private sector in water: Competition and regulation. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. pp.65-71.
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3 Howe, C.; White, S. 1999. Integrated resource planning for water and wastewater: Sydney case studies. Water International, 24(4):356-362.
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4 ESCAP. 1999. Regional cooperation in the twenty-first century on flood control and management in Asia and the Pacific. New York, NY, USA: UN. xii, 216p.
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5 Pink, A. (Ed.) 2000. Sustainable development international. 3rd ed. London, UK: ICG Publishing Ltd. 181p.
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7 Bandler, H. 2000. Australian concepts of environmental considerations in planning water storage dams. In International Association for Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR). Aisa and Pacific Division (APD). Sustainable water resources management: issues and future challenges. Proceedings of the 12th Congress of the Asia and Pacific Division of the International Association for Hydraulic Engineering and Research, Bangkok, Thailand, 13-16 November 2000. Volume IV - Water resources development and management. Bangkok, Thailand: Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Regional Environmental Management Center (REMC). pp.1313-1322.
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8 Mehrotra, R.; Soni, B.; Bhatia, K. K. S. (Eds.) 2000. Integrated water resources management for sustainable development: Volume II. Roorkee, India: National Institute of Hydrology. pp.757-1305.
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management for Sustainable Development (ICIWRM-2000), 19-21 December 2000, New Delhi, India, organised by the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee (U.P.), India.
9 Chanan, A.; White, M. 2000. Community participation in stormwater management in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment, Australia. In Mehrotra, R.; Soni, B.; Bhatia, K. K. S. (Eds.), Integrated water resources management for sustainable development - Volume II. Roorkee, India: National Institute of Hydrology. pp.919-926.
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15 O’Neill, P.; James, S. 2014. Feeding Sydney: assessing the importance of the city’s peri-urban farms. In Maheshwari, B.; Purohit, R.; Malano, H.; Singh, V. P.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie. (Eds.). The security of water, food, energy and liveability of cities: challenges and opportunities for peri-urban futures. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp.243-256. (Water Science and Technology Library Volume 71)
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Peri-urban agriculture is common to cities worldwide. Large cities depend on the availability of fresh foodstuffs and traditionally these have been supplied competitively by small scale farmers located on the fringes of cities. A peri-urban location gives access to urban markets as well as the opportunity to tap into urban water infrastructure and temporarily idle land. These opportunities mean, however, that peri-urban farmers are displaced by urban expansion. This chapter examines these dynamics through a case study of peri-urban agriculture in Sydney, Australia. The chapter combines four recent studies by the authors to give an appraisal of the relative importance of Sydney basin farmers to the supply of fresh fruit and vegetables to Sydney’s 4.3 million residents. The study finds there is much uncertainty over the future of these farmers.
16 Mason, D.; Davidson, B. 2014. Why and how to sustain agriculture around our cities: a case study of Sydney, Australia. In Maheshwari, B.; Purohit, R.; Malano, H.; Singh, V. P.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie. (Eds.). The security of water, food, energy and liveability of cities: challenges and opportunities for peri-urban futures. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp.269-282. (Water Science and Technology Library Volume 71)
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In the peri-urban regions that surround cities traditional industries, such as agriculture, tend to suffer as the process of urbanisation occurs. These industries tended to survive because their proximity to urban centres provided them with all the advantages of a natural monopoly in selected products. However, this natural protection is eroded by improvements in transport systems, amongst other factors, and in the end the traditional industries succumb to development pressures. In the past this process of change has not been managed well, with many instances of peri-urban regions and industries being swallowed up by new urban developments. The purpose in this paper is to outline an example of a program that is designed to manage the interests of those in the traditional industries in peri-urban regions as the process of development occurs. The program is known as the Hawkesbury Harvest and it is applied to the peri-urban region to the west of Sydney, Australia. In this paper, the history of agriculture in the region is initially presented in order to provide a context of how Hawkesbury Harvest operates. The region itself had a number of natural assets that protected it from competition, but these ceased with the development of improved transport networks. Hawkesbury Harvest operates within a competitive environment promoting the products and ecosystem services of traditional activities in a region that is subject to severe urban development pressures. It serves to manage the process of change in an ever changing environment and acts as a template for other regions suffering from similar pressures.
17 Aye, L.; Nawarathna, B.; George, B.; Nair, S.; Malano, H. 2014. Greenhouse gas emissions of decentralised water supply strategies in peri-urban areas of Sydney. In Maheshwari, B.; Purohit, R.; Malano, H.; Singh, V. P.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie. (Eds.). The security of water, food, energy and liveability of cities: challenges and opportunities for peri-urban futures. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp.355-363. (Water Science and Technology Library Volume 71)
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Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions for decentralised water supply systems is essential for water policy development, decision making and implementation of these systems. Two potential water supply strategies ‘Effluent Reuse’ and ‘Stormwater Harvesting’ applicable for the planned growth centre development of Western Sydney were developed. The associated energy intensities and operational greenhouse gas emissions of these two strategies were quantified by using the factors and methods prescribed by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency National Greenhouse Accounts Factors, 2011. It was found that in terms of operational greenhouse gas emissions, stormwater harvesting performs marginally better than effluent reuse while the cost of stormwater harvesting is expected to be about four times cheaper than effluent reuse in Australia.
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Rain gardens are an established element of water sensitive urban infrastructure. However, information on people's preferences for such systems is lacking. To understand whether people express willingness to pay for such systems and whether estimates are transferable between locations, we conducted choice experiments in Sydney and Melbourne. We found that people are willing to pay for rain gardens. The marginal willingness to pay for different features is similar in both locations, but the transfer of compensating surplus values between locations still generates transfer errors. The implications of transfer errors are investigated using a benefit-cost analysis of a rain garden installation.
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Strategic placement of water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) is essential in optimising its performance and maximising co-benefits. However, little is known about the current placement and interconnectedness between WSUD assets and the performance of current planning strategies. We evaluated the placement of existing WSUDs in a highly urbanised catchment in Sydney, Australia. We used a three-step process: (1) compiling a comprehensive spatial asset database, (2) performing spatial correlation analysis between asset locations and biophysical, urban form and socioeconomic variables and (3) using a novel approach to facilitate holistic understanding through analysing asset locations compared with the outcome of the spatial suitability analysis tool (SSANTO). WSUD coverage was generally low, with clustering in some municipalities. Placement was constrained by physical variables, such as slope, limited space and varying land uses. However, placement was not detectably influenced by most socioeconomic variables. SSANTO's suitability score at asset locations was only slightly higher than average, suggesting that the placement of existing WSUD was opportunistic, rather than strategically planned. Further development and implementation of tools able to account for spatial constraints will help guide future WSUD placement as a component of green urban stormwater management.
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