Why the Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan failed, andwhat can be done to fix it

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 49-60

  Quiggin, John ^a  

^a Australian Research Council Federation   (Australia)

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