The impact of water ownership and water market trade strategy on Australian irrigators' farm viability

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 129, Issue , 2014, Pages 81-92

  Wheeler, Sarah Ann ^a   Zuo, Alec ^a   Hughes, Neal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences   (Australia)

Author keywords

Murray Darling Basin; Profitability; Water allocations; Water entitlements; Water ownership

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; PROFITABILITY; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WATER DEMAND; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 84903815987     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2014.05.010     Document Type: Article

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