Displacement, risks and resistance: Local perceptions and actions in the Sardar Sarovar

Development and Change

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-78

  Dwivedi, Ranjit ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; POPULAR PROTEST; RESETTLEMENT POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

GUJARAT; INDIA; NARMADA RIVER;

EID: 0032914361     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00107     Document Type: Article

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