Lessons from adaptation to sustain freshwater environments in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 429-438

  Pittock, J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS; WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENTS; GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSE; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; RIGOROUS EVALUATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPLEMENTARITY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; INCENTIVE; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RIVER BASIN;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 84882238753     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.230     Document Type: Article

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