The Murray–Darling Basin Plan: An Adaptive Response to Ongoing Challenges

Economic Papers

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 318-326

  Crase, Lin ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Q18; Q25; Q28; water economics; water markets; water policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890245267     PISSN: 08120439     EISSN: 17593441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-3441.2012.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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