Valuing water: Variability and the Lake Eyre Basin, central Australia

Australian Geographer

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-85

  Gibbs, Leah M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Central Australia; Environmental value; Lake Eyre Basin; Natural resource management; Nature; Water

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; LAKE EYRE BASIN; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 32844454377     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049180500511988     Document Type: Article

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