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Grafton, RQ, Biswas, AK, Bosch, H, Fanaian, S, Gupta, J, Revi, A, Sami, N, Tortajada, C (2023) Goals, progress and priorities from Mar del Plata in 1977 to New York in 2023. Nat Water 1, 230-240. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00041-4. Available at: https://www.waterjusticehub.org/goals-progress-and-priorities-from-mar-del-plata-in-1977-to-new-york-in-2023/

GCEW (2023). The What, Why and How of the World Water Crisis: Global Commission on the Economics of Water Phase 1 Review and Findings, Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Paris. https://www.waterjusticehub.org/the-what-why-and-how-of-the-world-water-crisis-global-commission-on-the-economics-of-water-phase-1-review-and-findings/

Vardon, MJ, Le, THL, Martinez-Lagunes, R, Pule, OB, Schenau, S, May, S and Grafton, RQ (2023). Water Accounts and Water Accounting (Technical Report), Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Paris. https://www.waterjusticehub.org/water-accounts-and-water-accounting/

Perry CJ, Allen R, Droogers P, Kilic A and Grafton RQ (2023), Water Consumption, Measurements and Sustainable Water Use (Technical Report), Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Paris. https://www.waterjusticehub.org/water-consumption-measurements-and-sustainable-water-use/

Mehltretter S, Longboat S, Luby, B and Bradford, A (2023). Indigenous and Western Knowledge: Bringing Diverse Understandings of Water Together in Practice (Technical Report), Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Paris. https://www.waterjusticehub.org/indigenous-and-western-knowledge-bringing-diverse-understandings-of-water-together-in-practice/

Kompas T, Che TN and Grafton RQ (2023). The Impact of Water and Heat Stress from Global Warming on Agricultural Productivity and Food Security (Technical Report), Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Paris. https://www.waterjusticehub.org/the-impact-of-water-and-heat-stress-from-global-warming-on-agricultural-productivity-and-food-security/

Wheeler SA, Nauges C and Grafton RQ (2023). Water Pricing, Costs and Markets (Technical Report), Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Paris. https://www.waterjusticehub.org/water-pricing-costs-and-markets/

Grafton RQ, Krishnaswamy J and Revi A (2023). The Water Cycle and the Economy (Technical Report), Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Paris. https://www.waterjusticehub.org/the-water-cycle-and-the-economy/

Katic, P and Grafton, RQ (2023). Towards Operationalising the Water-Energy-Food Nexus (Technical Report), Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Paris. https://www.waterjusticehub.org/towards-operationalising-the-water-energy-food-nexus/

Taylor, KS, Poelina, A, William, N, Larsen, L, Grafton, RQ (2022). Indigenous water reserves in Australia: 2022 policy brief, version 1.0. Water Justice Hub and Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/280411

Wyrwoll, PR, Manero, A, Taylor, KS, Rose, E, Grafton, RQ (2022). Measuring the gaps in drinking water quality and policy across regional and remote Australia. npj Clean Water 5, 32. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-022-00174-1

Woods, K (2022). Martuwarra (Fitzroy River) Values and Valuation – Knowledge, Gaps, and Needs. Water Justice Hub (not academic peer-reviewed). https://www.waterjusticehub.org/martuwarra-fitzroy-river-values-and-valuation-knowledge-gaps-and-needs/

Grafton, RQ, Chu, L, Kingsford, RT, Bina, G, Williams, J (2022). Resilience to Hydrological Droughts in the Northern Murray-Darling Basin. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 380: 20210296. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2021.0296

Owens, K, Carmody, E, Grafton, RQ, O’Donnell, E, Wheeler, SA, Gooden, L, Allen, R, Lyster, R, Steduto, P, Jiang, Q, Kingsford, R, Quiggin, J (2022). Delivering global water security: Embedding water justice as a response to increased irrigation efficiency WIREs Water 22; e1608. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1608

Colloff, M, Grafton, RQ and Williams, J (2022). A Rejoinder to the Comment by Stewardson et al. (2021) to the published article by Colloff et al. (2021) that were published in the Australasian Journal of Water Resources. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/267452.

Grafton, RQ, Horne, J and Wheeler, SA (2022). Rethinking Water Markets (36 pp) in The Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.013.800

Grafton, RQ and Wittner, G (2021). Temperature-Rainfall Anomalies and Climate Change: Possible Effects on Australian Agriculture in 2030 and 2050, Chapter 17 (pp. 351-374) In A. Biswas and C. Tortajada (Eds.) Water Security under Climate Change. Springer. Water Security Under Climate Change | SpringerLink.

Manero, A, Taylor, K, Nikolakis, W, Adamowicz, W, Marshall, V, Spencer-Cotton, A, Nguyen, M, Grafton, RQ (2022). A systematic literature review of non-market valuation of Indigenous peoples’ values: Current knowledge, best-practice and framing questions for future research. Ecosystem Services 54, 101417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101417

Manero, A & Wheeler, SA (2022). Perceptions of Tanzanian smallholder irrigators on impact pathways between water equity and socioeconomic inequalities 38 (1), 80-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2020.1866506

Nikolakis, W, Grafton, RQ (2022). Law versus justice: the Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserve in the Northern Territory, Australia. International Journal of Water Resources Development 38 (1), 11-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2021.1882406

Grafton, RQ, Fanaian, F, Sacco, G and Liberman, L (2021). Bending Towards Water Justice: Pathways for Truth, Reconciliation, Inclusion and Transformative Actions. International Journal of Water Resources Development 38(1): 1-10. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07900627.2021.1952855

Chu, L and Grafton, RQ (2021). Dynamic Water Pricing and the Risk-Adjusted User Cost (RAUC). Water Resources and Economics (35) 100181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2021.100181

Wyrwoll, P and Grafton, RQ (2021). Reforming for Resilience: Delivering ‘Multipurpose Hydropower’ under Water and Energy Risks. International Journal of Water Resources Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2021.1944844

Colloff, M, Grafton, RQ, Williams J (2021). Scientific integrity, public policy and water governance in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Australasian Journal of Water Resources. https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2021.1917097

Nikolakis, N, Grafton RQ (2021). Law versus justice: The Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserve in the Northern Territory, Australia. International Journal of Water Resources Development.  https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2021.1882406

Grafton, RQ (2021). Book review of ‘Dead in the Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe…the death of the Murray-Darling Basin’ by Richard Beasley. International Journal of Water Resources Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2021.1914003

Grafton, RQ (2021). Book review of ‘Water Science, Policy, and Management: A Global Challenge’ by Eds. S. J. Dadson, D. E. Garrick, E. C. Penning-Rowsell, J. W. Hall, R. Hope and J. Hughes. Wiley Blackwell, 408 pp. Water Economics and Policy 7: 2180001. https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S2382624X21800011

Colloff, M, Connell, D, Daniell, K, Grafton, RQ (contact author), Guillaume, J, van Kerkoff, L, Lal, A, Marshall, V, Nabavi, E, Pittock, J, Taylor, K, Tregoning, P, Williams, J, Wyrwoll, P. (2020).  Water reform for all: a national response to a water emergency. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/204069 (not academic peer-reviewed).

Marshall, V (2020). Removing the Veil from the ‘Rights of Nature’: The Dichotomy between First Nations Customary Rights and Environmental Legal Personhood, Australian Feminist Law Journal 45 (2): 233-248. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13200968.2019.1802154

Taylor, KS, Longboat, S, Grafton, RQ (2019). Whose Rules? A Water Justice Critique of the OECD’s 12 Principles on Water Governance. in JW Nicole, MH Leila, N Joanne, HS Sameer (eds), Water Governance Retheorizing Politics, MDPI, Switzerland, pp. 287-305. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/Water_Governance_Politics

Taylor, KS (2019). What does ‘water security’ mean for Australia? A review of Australian policy, Summer Research Scholar 2019, Parliamentary Library. https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/APF/Past_Scholarship_research


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