Irrigator and Environmental Water Management Adaptation to Climate Change and Water Reallocation in the Murray-Darling Basin

Water Economics and Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Kirby, Mac ^a   Connor, Jeff ^a   Ahmad, Mobin Ud Din ^a   Gao, Lei ^a   Mainuddin, Mohammed ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; environmental flow management adaptation; irrigation adaptation; water reallocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947744485     PISSN: 2382624X     EISSN: 23826258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S2382624X15500095     Document Type: Article

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