Enhancing agrienvironmental outcomes: Market-based approaches to water in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Crase, Lin ^a   O'Keefe, Sue ^a   Kinoshita, Yukio ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL WATER; INTERNATIONAL POLICIES; MARKET-BASED APPROACH; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; WATER REFORMS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER RESOURCES;

COMMERCE;

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; MARKET SYSTEM; POLICY MAKING; STATE ROLE;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 84866994446     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012140     Document Type: Article

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