Do markets promote more efficient and higher value water use? Tracing evidence over time in an Australian water market

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 103, Issue , 2007, Pages 477-487

  Bjornlund, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Australia; Community impact; Water reallocation; Water trading

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; MARKET; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER USE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 38849180010     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/WRM070451     Document Type: Article

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