Integrated water resources management: Lost on the road from ambition to realisation?

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-8

  Jeffrey, P ^a   Gearey, M ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Integrated water resources management; Practice; Theory

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT; THEORY;

INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT;

WATER RESOURCES;

MANAGEMENT; THEORY; WATER RESOURCES;

INTEGRATED APPROACH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HYDROLOGY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SCIENCE; THEORY VALIDATION; THEORY-PRACTICE RELATIONSHIP; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER STRESS; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESEARCH; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33644625298     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2006.001     Document Type: Article

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