Welfare gains from urbanizing landscapes in Great Barrier Reef catchments? A spatial environmental-economic modelling approach

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 102, Issue , 2007, Pages 737-749

  Roebeling, P C ^a   Fletcher, C S ^a   Hilbert, D W ^a   Udo, J ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Optimal control; Regional planning; Spatially explicit models; Urbanizing landscapes; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION GROWTH; REGIONAL PLANNING; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 36148981133     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/SDP070712     Document Type: Article

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