Irrigation development on Cooper Creek, central Australia - Prospects for a regulated economy in a boom-and-bust ecology

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-73

  Walker, Keith F ^a   Puckridge, Jim T ^a   Blanch, Stuart J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; RIPARIA;

DRYLAND RIVER; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FLOW REGIME; IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND, COOPER CREEK;

EID: 0030949644     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0755(199703)7:1<63::aid-aqc218>3.0.co;2-5     Document Type: Review

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