Tornell, A., and Westermann, F.:Boom-bust Cycles and Financial Liberalization

Irrigation development on Cooper Creek,

Irrigation development on Cooper Creek, central Australia—prospects for a regulated economy in a boom-and-bust ecology

✍ KEITH F. WALKER; JIM T. PUCKRIDGE; STUART J. BLANCH 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 255 KB

We take issue with a proposal to irrigate cotton crops from Cooper Creek, as the development would be in sharp contrast to the `boom-and-bust' character of the local environment. In dryland rivers the flow regime is influenced by aseasonal climatic phenomena like the Southern Oscillation, so that pa