Managing the Catchments of the Great Barrier Reef

Handbook of Catchment Management

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 351-376

  Waterhouse, Jane ^a   Grundy, Mike ^a   Gordon, Iain ^a   Brodie, Jon ^a,b   Eberhard, Rachel ^c   Yorkston, Hugh ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Eberhard Consulting   (Australia)

^d GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK AUTHORITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Applied management practices; Catchment managers' partnership and challenges; Catchments and the Great Barrier Reef; Crown of thorns starfish outbreaks; Humid tropical (Wet Tropics and Mackay Whitsunday catchments); Institutional complexities; Managing catchments of Great Barrier Reef, Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia abundant biodiversity and extent; Reef Plan implementation and Water Quality Improvement Plans; Water quality issue management in GBR catchment challenges in future

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889626329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307672.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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