Managing Turkmenistan's Kara Kum Canal: Problems and prospects

Post-Soviet Geography and Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 225-235

  Hannan, Tim ^a   O'Hara, Sarah L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANAL; IRRIGATION SYSTEM;

CANAL OPERATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; WATER MANAGEMENT;

TURKMENISTAN, KARA KUM CANAL;

EID: 0031714757     PISSN: 10889388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10889388.1998.10641075     Document Type: Article

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