The fluctuating political appeal of water engineering in Australia

Water Alternatives

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 440-447

  Crase, Lin R ^a   O'Keefe, Suzanne M ^b   Dollery, Brian E ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allocation; Australia; Engineering; Public policy; Water policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951274839     PISSN: 19650175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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