Variability and uncertainty: Implications forwater policy impact analysis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 82-100

  Mallawaarachchi, Thilak ^a   Adamson, David ^a   Chambers, Sarah ^a   Schrobback, Peggy ^a   Quiggin, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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