Easy to say, hard to do: Integrated surface water and groundwater management in the Murray-Darling Basin

Water Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 709-724

  Ross, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Entitlements; Governance; Groundwater; Integrated; Management organization; Murray Darling Basin; Rules; Surface water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865779931     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2012.129     Document Type: Article

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