A hundred-year policy experiment: The Murray–Darling Basin in Australia

Water Policy Reform: Lessons in Sustainability from the Murray-Darling Basin

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 9-36

  Cummins, Tim ^a   Watson, Alistair ^b  

^a Tim Cummins and Associates at Rosebank   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

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