Private profits - public drought: The creation of a crisis in water management for West Yorkshire

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 419-433

  Haughton, Graham ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drought; England; Privatization; United Kingdom; Water industry; Water management; West Yorkshire

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; PRIVATIZATION; WATER INDUSTRY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM; WEST YORKSHIRE;

EID: 0032453697     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0020-2754.1998.00419.x     Document Type: Article

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