Water allocation, social change and resilience

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 179-192

  Ross, Helen ^a   Driml, Sally ^a   Zarezadeh, Zohreh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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