Trading water to improve environmental flow outcomes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4265-4276

  Connor, Jeffery D ^a   Franklin, Brad ^b   Loch, Adam ^c   Kirby, Mac ^a   Wheeler, Sarah Ann ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; economics; environmental flow; Murray Darling basin; water; water trade

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCE; COSTS; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; FLOODS; WATER; WATERSHEDS;

AUSTRALIA; ECOLOGICAL WATER DEMAND; ECONOMIC SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOME; ENVIRONMENTAL WATER; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; WATER TRADES;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84880669953     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20323     Document Type: Article

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