"Custodians" or "investors": Classifying irrigators in Australia's Namoi Valley

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 96, Issue , 2006, Pages 225-235

  Kuehne, G ^a   Bjornlund, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Farmer typology; Ground water; Namoi Valley; Water sharing plans

Indexed keywords

FARMERS ATTITUDE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; PERCEPTION; POLICY MAKING; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STAKEHOLDER; TYPOLOGY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NAMOI VALLEY; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 36148989108     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/SI060221     Document Type: Article

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