Recent Australian market mechanisms as a component of an environmental policy that can make choices between sustainability and social justice

Social Justice Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 387-403

  McKay, Jennifer ^a,b   Bjornlund, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b School of International Business   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Marketization; Public interest; Triple bottom line accounting; Water laws; Water policies; Water reform process

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642301103     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014650612202     Document Type: Article

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