The potential for carbon trading in the SA Murray Darling Basin: Modelling farmer decision making

MODSIM07 - Land, Water and Environmental Management: Integrated Systems for Sustainability, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1198-1204

  Ward, J R ^a   Bryan, B A ^a   Crossman, N D ^a   King, D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Decision making; Experimental economics; Natural resource management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CATCHMENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED CONTROL; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAND USE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REVEGETATION; RUNOFF; SOIL CONSERVATION; SURVEYS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CONCEPTUAL SIMULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS; INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENTS (NRM); SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 80052948746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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