Using adaptive management to meet multiple goals for flows along the Mitta Mitta River in South-Eastern Australia

Adaptive Environmental Management: A Practitioner's Guide

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 59-69

  Allan, Catherine ^c   Watts, Robyn J ^c   Commens, Sarah ^a   Ryder, Darren S ^b  

^a Murray Darling Basin Authority   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 77955062850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9632-7_4     Document Type: Chapter

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