Acquiring Water for the Environment: Lessons from Natural Resources Management

Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 513-532

  Lane Miller, Chelsea C ^a,b,c   Wheeler, Sarah ^b   Bjornlund, Henning ^b,d   Connor, Jeffrey ^c  

^a VERMONT LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buybacks; environmental water; fisheries; instream flows; Murray Darling basin; water markets; western USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887998767     PISSN: 1523908X     EISSN: 15227200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2013.807210     Document Type: Review

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