Saving the Southern Murray-Darling Basin: The Economic Effects of a Buyback of Irrigation Water

Economic Record

Volumn 87, Issue 276, 2011, Pages 153-168

  Dixon, Peter B ^a   Rimmer, Maureen T ^a   Wittwer, Glyn ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; PRICE DYNAMICS; RIVER FLOW;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 79951730413     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2010.00691.x     Document Type: Article

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