Much ado about the murray: The drama of restraining water use

River Basin Trajectories: Societies, Environments and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 263-291

  Turral, Hugh ^a   Connell, Daniel ^b   McKay, Jennifer ^c  

^a The Australian National University ^*  (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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