Changes to land tenure and pastoral lease ownership in Western Australia's central rangelands: Implications for co-operative, landscape-scale management

Rangeland Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-46

  Van Etten, Eddie J B ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

catchment management; ecosystem management; grazing management; land use change; landscape ecology; mining; multi functional transition; pastoralism; property rights.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875432077     PISSN: 10369872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RJ11088     Document Type: Article

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