Climate change, water security and the need for integrated policy development: The case of on-farm infrastructure investment in the Australian irrigation sector

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Maraseni, T N ^a   Mushtaq, S ^a   Reardon Smith, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; greenhouse gas emissions; integrated trade offs framework; irrigation technologies; water security

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864411438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034006     Document Type: Article

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