Futures for the Wheatbelt - Is 2030 already here?

Australian Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 537-551

  McKenzie, Fiona Haslam ^a   Stehlik, Daniela ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CHANGE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

EID: 23144451724     PISSN: 00049409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AR04197     Document Type: Review

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