Water policy impact assessment - Combining modelling techniques in the Great Barrier Reef region

Water Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 191-202

  Smajgl, A ^a   Morris, S ^b   Heckbert, S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Computable general equilibrium models; Great Barrier Reef; Integrated assessment and modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149159771     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2009.022     Document Type: Article

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