Rural economic transitions: Groundwater use in the middle east and its environmental consequences

The Agricultural Groundwater Revolution: Opportunities and Threats to Development

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 63-78

  Allan, J A Tony ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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