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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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Brears, R.C. (2018). The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Murray-Darling River Basin. In: The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58365-9_11
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