Farmers' climate change beliefs and adaptation strategies for a water scarce future in Australia

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 537-547

  Wheeler, S ^a   Zuo, A ^a   Bjornlund, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basin; Climate change attitudes; Irrigators; Planned behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CLIMATE CHANGE; IRRIGATION;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 84878020664     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.11.008     Document Type: Article

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