Toward environmental management systems in australian agriculture to achieve better environmental outcomes at the catchment scale

Environmental Management

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 311-329

  Seymour, Eloise J ^a   Ridley, Anna M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catchment management; Environmental policy; Natural resource management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CATCHMENTS; FINANCE; PUBLIC POLICY; STANDARDS;

AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (EMS); INTEGRATED CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT (ICM); LANDSCAPE SCALES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LANDSCAPE; POLICY;

AGRICULTURE; AUSTRALIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GOVERNMENT; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; POLICY MAKING;

AGRICULTURE; FINANCE; STANDARDS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 21044434807     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-004-0107-9     Document Type: Article

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