Managing transboundary rivers: The case of the Mekong River Basin

Water International

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 503-523

  Sokhem, Pech ^a   Sunada, Kengo ^b   Oishi, Satoru ^b  

^a Hatfield Consultants   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Integrated river basin management; Mekong River Basin; Regional regimes networks; Transboundary problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 45449101388     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2007.9709685     Document Type: Article

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