Irrigator preferences for water recovery budget expenditure in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Land Use Policy

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 396-404

  Loch, Adam ^a   Wheeler, Sarah ^b   Boxall, Peter ^c   Hatton Macdonald, Darla ^d   Adamowicz, W L ^c   Bjornlund, Henning ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Budget allocation; Economic analysis; Irrigator preferences; Water recovery

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXPENDITURE; IRRIGATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TRADE-OFF; WATER BUDGET; WATER RESOURCE;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 84885740255     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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