Institutional Innovations to Govern Environmental Water in the Western United States: Lessons for Australia’s Murray–Darling Basin

Economic Papers

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 167-184

  Garrick, Dustin ^a,c   Lane Miller, Chelsea ^a,c   McCoy, Amy L ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

D02; environmental water allocation; institutional design; nested governance; Q25; Q28; water markets; Western United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866419002     PISSN: 08120439     EISSN: 17593441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-3441.2011.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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