Environmental flows: Achieving ecological outcomes in variable environments

Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 9780521762588, Issue , 2011, Pages 331-350

  Norris, Richard ^a   Nichols, Susan ^b  

^a Australian National University   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; MACROINVERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGE; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY GROUPS; RELEASE STRATEGIES; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; VARIABLE ENVIRONMENT;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 79960566208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511974304.018     Document Type: Chapter

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