The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Murray-Darling River Basin

  • Robert C. Brears
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Abstract

The Murray-Darling River Basin faces a variety of water-, energy-, and food-related nexus pressures that are detrimental to the development of a green economy. To reduce nexus pressures, river basin cities and states use a variety of fiscal and non-fiscal tools that create interdependencies and synergies between the nexus systems while reducing trade-offs between the systems in their pursuit of green growth.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Robert C. Brears
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  1. 1.MitidaptionChristchurchNew Zealand

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