Roles of Levies for Sustainable Domestic Water Consumption

Water Resources Management

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 929-940

  Wu, Zhifang ^a   McKay, Jennifer ^a   Hemphill, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community responses; Policy evaluation; Water conservation; Water consumption behaviour; Water resources management

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TAXATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER RESOURCES;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS; POLICY EVALUATION; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; URBAN COMMUNITY; WATER CONSUMPTION; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; WEB-BASED SURVEYS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; POLICY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TAX SYSTEM; WATER DEMAND; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE;

ADELAIDE; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79951552542     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9734-5     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. ABS (2006a) 8146.0-Household use of information technology. Australia, 2005-06, Canberra.
2. ABS (2006b) 4130. 0. 55. 001-Housing occupancy and costs. Australia, 2003-2004, Canberra.
3. Adelaide & Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board (2006a) The natural resources management levy, Adelaide, viewed 18 August 2006. http://www. amlrnrm. sa. gov. au/BoardGroups/AbouttheBoard/NRMLevy. aspx.
4. Adelaide & Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board (2006b) Public awareness of board existence and functions, April 2006, McGregor Tan Household Omnibus Survey, McGregor Tan Research.
5. Aitken SS, Bonneville L (1980) A general taxpayer opinion survey. Prepared for Office of Planning and Research, Internal Revenue Service. CSR, Washington.
6. Alm J, Martinez-Vazque J, Torgler B (2006) Russian attitudes toward paying taxes-before, during, and after the transition. Int J Soc Econ 33(12): 832-857.
7. Andey SP, Kelkar PS (2009) Influences of intermittent and continuous modes of water supply on domestic water consumption. Water Resour Manag 23(12): 2555-2566.
8. Aretino PH, Matysek A, Peterson D (2001) Cost sharing for biodiversity conservation: a conceptual framework. Productivity Commission Staff Research Paper, AusInfo, Canberra.
9. Barberán R, Arbués F (2009) Equity in domestic water rates design. Water Resour Manag 23(10): 2101-2118.
10. Brandes OM, Ferguson K (2003) Flushing the future? Examining urban water use in Canada, POLIS Project on Ecological Governance. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.
11. Chu J, Wang C, Chen J, Wang H (2009) Agent-based residential water use behaviour simulation and policy implications. Water Resour Manag 23(15): 3267-3295.
12. Crase L, O'Keefe S, Burston J (2007) Inclining block tariffs for urban water. Agenda 14(1): 69-80.
13. Crase L (2008) An introduction to Australian water policy. In: Crasse L (ed) Water policy in Australia: the impact of change and uncertainty. Resources For The Future, Washington, DC, USA.
14. Crase L, Dollery B (2008) The institutional setting. In: Crasse L (ed) Water policy in Australia: the impact of change and uncertainty. Resources For The Future, Washington, DC, USA.
15. Dibb S, Rushmer A, Stern P (2001) New survey medium: collecting marketing data with e-mail and the World Wide Web. J Target Meas Anal Mark 10(1): 17-25.
16. Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) (1994), Who cares about the environment: a benchmark survey of the environmental knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviour of the people of New South Wales, New South Wales.
17. Gilg A, Barr S (2006) Behavioural attitudes towards water saving? Evidence from a study of environmental actions. Ecol Econ 57(3): 400-414.
18. Gonzales MH, Aronson E, Costanzo MA (1988) Using social cognition and persuasion to promote energy conservation: a quasi-experiment. J Appl Soc Psychol 18(12): 1049-1066.
19. Granello DH, Wheaton JE (2004) Online data collection: strategies for research. J Couns Dev 82(4): 387-393.
20. Gregory GD, Leo M (2003) Repeated behaviour and environmental psychology: the role of personal involvement and habit formation in explaining water consumption. J Appl Soc Psychol 33(6): 1261-1296.
21. Hatfield-Dodds S (2006) The catchment care principle: A new equity principle for environmental policy, with advantages for efficiency and adaptive governance. Ecol Econ 56(3): 373-385.
22. Ku-ring-gai Council, the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of New South Wales & the Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University (2005), Ku-ring-gai Community Environmental Research Project Report, Ku-ring-gai Council, the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of New South Wales & the Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University.
23. Kurz T (2002) The psychology of environmentally sustainable behaviour: fitting together pieces of the puzzle. Anal Soc Issues Public Policy 2: 257-278.
24. Kurz T, Donaghue N, Walker I (2005) Utilizing a social-ecological framework to promote water and energy conservation: a field experiment. J Appl Soc Psychol 35(6): 1281-1300.
25. Madajewicz M, Pfaff A, van Geen A, Graziano J, Hussein I, Momotaj H, Sylvi R, Ahsan H (2007) Can information alone change behaviour? Response to arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh. J Dev Econ 84(2): 731-754.
26. McGranahan G (2005) An overview of urban environmental burdens at three scales: intra-urban, urban-regional, and global. Int Rev Environ Strateg 5(2): 335-356.
27. McKay J (2005) Water institutional reforms in Australia. J Water Policy 7: 35-52.
28. Newman P (2005) Sustainability assessment and cities. Int Rev Environ Strateg 5(2): 383-398.
29. Ostrom E, Walker J, Gardner R (1994) Rules, games, and common-pool resources. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbour.
30. Ostrom E (2005) Understanding institutional diversity. Princetown University Press, Princetown.
31. Owens S, Cowill R (2002) Land and limits: interpreting sustainability in the planning process. Routledge, London.
32. Pallant, J (2007) SPSS survival manual, 3rd edn. Allen & Unwin, New South Wales, Australia.
33. Rabone FA (2006) The challenge of implementing water harvesting and reuse in South Australian Towns. viewed 15 July 2010. http://digital. library. adelaide. edu. au/dspace/bitstream/2440/51216/4/03part1B. pdf.
34. Renzetti S (2002) The economics of water demands. Kluwer, Boston.
35. SA Water (2006) SA Water annual report 2005 - 2006, Adelaide.
36. Saleth R, Dinar A (2004) The institutional economics of water, a cross-country analysis of institutions and performance, a co-publication with World Bank, Edward Elgar.
37. Schillewaert N, Langerak F, Duhamel T (1998) Non-probability sampling for WWW surveys: a comparison. J Mark Res Soc 40(4): 307-322.
38. Schillewaert N, Meulemeester P (2005) Comparing response distributions of offline and online data collection methods. Int J Mark Res 47(2): 163-178.
39. Soderholm P (2004) Extending the environmental tax base: prerequisites for increased taxation of natural resources and chemical compounds, Report 5416, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. Viewed 18 August 2004. http://www. naturvardsverket. se/bokhandeln.
40. The Natural Resources Management (NRM) Act (2004) Government of South Australia.
41. Toth J (2007) Water use and regulation: Australia's water supply, consumption and regulation, Economics@ANZ. 05 January 2007. viewed 8 June 2007. http://www. anz. com/documents/economics/WaterJan2007. pdf.
42. Watson B (2003) Approaches to increasing river flows. Aust Econ Rev 36(2): 213-214.
43. Winter D (2000) Some big ideas for some big problems. Am Psychol 55: 516-522.
44. Wu Z, McKay J, Hemphill E (2008) Attitudes to the natural resources management levy in Adelaide. Water 35(2): 87-89.
45. Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc. (1984) Taxpayer attitudes study: final report. Prepared for The Internal Revenue Service, US.
46. Zimmer M, Stafford T, Stafford M (1994) Green issues: dimensions of environmental concern. J Bus Res 30: 63-74.