Sustainable governance for small desert settlements: Learning from the multi-settlement regionalism of Anmatjere Community Government Council

Rangeland Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 137-147

  Sanders, Will ^a   Holcombe, Sarah ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Local government; Northern Territory; Policy histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549167596     PISSN: 10369872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RJ07034     Document Type: Article

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