Assessing the usefulness of the water poverty index by applying it to a special case: Can one be water poor with high levels of access?

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 34, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 219-224

  Komnenic, V ^a   Ahlers, R ^b   Zaag, P van der ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BANJA LUKA   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Indicators; Indices; Poverty; Sava River; Water poverty; Water Poverty Index

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

INDICATORS; INDICES; POVERTY; SAVA RIVER; WATER POVERTY; WATER POVERTY INDEX;

WATER RESOURCES;

ACCESSIBILITY; DEVELOPING WORLD; INDEX METHOD; POVERTY; RESOURCE SCARCITY; RIPARIAN ZONE; TRIBUTARY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESOURCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SAVA RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 59349091183     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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