The cycles and spirals of justice in water-allocation decision making
Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Faculty
Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science
School
School of Law and Justice
RAS ID
19311
Abstract
Managing for social and environmental justice in water allocation is a necessary yet challenging goal. Often, what can appear as a just or equitable outcome for a specific location or group of stakeholders can also result in injustices at other locations or for other stakeholders. This paper describes a conceptual framework, The Cycles and Spirals of Justice, that helps make sense of the relationship between justice and injustice in the context of water-allocation decision making by explicitly utilizing a landscape-ecology understanding of scale and levels. The framework is illustrated using a case study from the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia and describes how justice and injustice are part of a cycling continuum of "justice for whom" and how this plays out in a multi-level system where the problem of scale can surface.
DOI
10.1080/02508060.2013.863646
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Patrick M.J. (2014). The Cycles and Spirals of Justice in water-allocation decision making. Water International, 39(1), 63-80. Available here