Paleoclimate studies and natural-resource management in the Murray-Darling Basin II: unravelling human impacts and climate variability

Mills, Keely; Gell, Peter A; Gergis, Joëlle; Baker, P J; Finlayson, C.M; Hesse, Paul; Jones, Roger; Kershaw, Peter; Barr, Cameron; Treble, Pauline; Drysdale, Russell N; Brookhouse, Matthew; McDonald, Janece; Pearson, S; Haberle, Simon

Paleoclimate studies and natural-resource management in the Murray-Darling Basin II: unravelling human impacts and climate variability

Date

2013

Authors

Mills, Keely

Gell, Peter A

Gergis, Joëlle

Baker, P J

Finlayson, C.M

Hesse, Paul

Jones, Roger

Kershaw, Peter

Barr, Cameron

Treble, Pauline

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

The management of the water resources of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) has long been contested, and the effects of the recent Millennium drought and subsequent flooding events have generated acute contests over the appropriate allocation of water supplie