Regulating agricultural land use to manage water quality: The challenges for science and policy in enforcing limits on non-point source pollution in New Zealand

Land Use Policy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 378-387

  Duncan, Ronlyn ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

New Zealand; Non point source pollution; Predictive modelling; Resource limits; Science policy; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; LAND USE; LAND USE PLANNING; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLICY APPROACH; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION POLICY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; MODELING; WATER RESOURCE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84904294325     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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