Private appropriation of resource: Impact of peri-urban farmers selling water to Chennai Metropolitan Water Board

Cities

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 110-121

  Ruet, Joël ^a,b   Gambiez, Marie ^c   Lacour, Emilie ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Institut National d'Agronomie   (France)

Author keywords

income divergence; India; land use; metropolitan governance; peri urban; property rights; urban common; water conflict; water supply

Indexed keywords

LIBERALIZATION; METROPOLITAN AREA; PROPERTY RIGHTS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN AGRICULTURE; URBAN ECONOMY; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; CHENNAI; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 33947593773     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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