Chapter 13 Desalinated Versus Recycled Water: What Does the Public Think?

Sustainability Science and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue C, 2010, Pages 375-388

  Dolnicar, Sara ^a   Hurlimann, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

attitudes; Australia; desalination; public opinion; Salinity gradient energy; water recycling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957773082     PISSN: 18712711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1871-2711(09)00213-X     Document Type: Review

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