Development by design in Western Australia: Overcoming offset obstacles

Land

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 167-187

  Fitzsimons, James ^a   Heiner, Michael ^a   McKenney, Bruce ^a   Sochi, Kei ^a   Kiesecker, Joseph ^a  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Western Woodlands; Mining; Mitigation hierarchy; Offsets; Pastoral lease; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001882663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land3010167     Document Type: Article

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