Building resilience to climate change in rain-fed agricultural enterprises: An integrated property planning tool

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 391-397

  Reid, Gregory H ^a  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate change; Grazing; Integrated property planning; Soil moisture planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350153979     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-008-9168-3     Document Type: Article

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