From conflicts to wise practice agreement and national strategy: cooperative learning and coastal stewardship in estuarine floodplain management, Tweed River, eastern Australia

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1545-1558

  White, Ian ^a   Melville, Mike ^b   Macdonald, Ben ^a   Quirk, Robert ^c   Hawken, Robert ^c   Tunks, Mark ^d   Buckley, Don ^d   Beattie, Rick ^e   Williams, John ^f   Heath, Lance ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NSW Canegrowers Association   (Australia)

^d Tweed Shire Council   (Australia)

^e NSW Sugar Milling Co operative Limited   (Australia)

^f NSW AGRICULTURE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acid sulfate soils; Acidic discharge; Coastal floodplain management; Cooperative learning; Diffuse source pollution; Wise practice agreements

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; DRAINAGE; ESTUARIES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OXIDATION; SOILS;

ACIDIC DISCHARGE; COASTAL STEWARDSHIP; DIFFUSE SOURCE POLLUTION; WISE PRACTICE AGREEMENTS;

FLOOD CONTROL;

EID: 34248147086     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2006.07.049     Document Type: Article

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