From conflict to industry - regulated best practice guidelines: A case study of estuarine flood plain management of the Tweed river, eastern Australia

Environment and Livelihoods in Tropical Coastal Zones: Managing Agriculture-Fishery-Aquaculture Conflicts

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 107-125

  White, I ^a   Melville, M ^b   Macdonald, B C T ^a   Quirk, R ^c   Hawken, R ^c   Tunks, M ^d   Buckley, D ^d   Beattie, R ^e   Heath, L ^a   Williams, J ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c New South Wales Canegrowers   (Australia)

^d Tweed Shire Council   (Australia)

^e New South Wales Sugar Milling Co operative Limited   (Australia)

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