Achieving targeted environmental flows: Alternative allocation and trading models under scarce supply-lessons from the Australian reform process

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 745-760

  Loch, Adam ^a   Bjornlund, Henning ^a,b   McIver, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERBANK FLOW; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RESOURCE SCARCITY; RESOURCE USE; RIVER SYSTEM; STREAMFLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 79961239953     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c10142     Document Type: Article

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