Water resources management in the Nile basin: The economic value of cooperation

Water Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 227-252

  Whittington, Dale ^a   Wu, Xun ^b   Sadoff, Claudia ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Economic optimisation; Nile basin; Water conflicts

Indexed keywords

EID: 20644470730     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2005.0015     Document Type: Article

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