Assessing social acceptability of management options for harmonising irrigation with environmental concerns: A pilot study from the murrumbidgee Valley, Australia

Water SA

Volumn 34, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 517-522

  Allan, Catherine ^a,b   Khan, Shahbaz ^a,b   Davidson, Brian ^b,c  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conjunctive management of surface and groundwater; Environmental management; Seasonality of flows; Social acceptability; System harmonisation

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; GROUNDWATER; IRRIGATION; RUNOFF; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CONJUNCTIVE MANAGEMENT; DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOME; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATERS; HARMONISATION; SEASONALITY; SOCIAL ACCEPTABILITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INCENTIVE; IRRIGATION; SEASONALITY; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; VALLEY; WATER DEMAND; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MURRUMBIDGEE VALLEY; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 67649355070     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: 18167950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/wsa.v34i4.183665     Document Type: Article

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