Building resilient pathways to transformation when “no one is in charge”: Insights from Australia’s murray-darling basin

Ecology and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Abel, Nick ^a   Wise, Russell M ^a   Colloff, Matthew J ^a   Walker, Brian H ^a   Butler, James R A ^a   Ryan, Paul ^b   Norman, Chris ^c   Langston, Art ^a   Anderies, John M ^d   Gorddard, Russell ^a   Dunlop, Michael ^a   O’connell, Deborah ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Australian Resilience Centre   (Australia)

^c Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority   (Australia)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation pathways; Climate change; Collective action; Domain shift; Equity; Irrigation; Resilience; Social conflict; Transformation; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLLECTIVE ACTION; EQUITY; IRRIGATION; SOCIAL CONFLICT; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 84976536466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-08422-210223     Document Type: Article

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