Whither La Plata? Assessing the state of transboundary water resource cooperation in the basin

Natural Resources Forum

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 203-214

  Gilman, Patrick ^a   Pochat, Víctor ^b   Dinar, Ariel ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM); La Plata; Paraguay and Uruguay; Treaties

Indexed keywords

RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER BASIN; TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

ARGENTINA; BOLIVIA; BRAZIL; LA PLATA BASIN; PARAGUAY; SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

EID: 51349149936     PISSN: 01650203     EISSN: 14778947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-8947.2008.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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