A regional hydrologic-economic evaluation to devise environmentally sustainable rice farming systems in southern Murray Darling Basin, Australia

Paddy and Water Environment

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-50

  Khan, Shahbaz ^a,b  

^a UNESCO Division of Water Sciences   (France)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Economic; Groundwater; Hydrologic; Integrated; Irrigation; Social and common pool optimum

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FARMING SYSTEM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IRRIGATION; RICE; SALINITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER TABLE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WATERLOGGING;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 77954088357     PISSN: 16112490     EISSN: 16112504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10333-009-0172-z     Document Type: Article

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