Drought, demand and the scale of resilience: Challenges for interdisciplinarity in practice

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 233-248

  Medd, Will ^a   Chappells, Heather ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; SECURITY OF SUPPLY; SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SUPPLY AND DEMAND;

ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DROUGHT;

EID: 35448996431     PISSN: 03080188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/030801807X211748     Document Type: Article

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