Critical review of Integrated Water Resources Management: Moving beyond polarised discourse

Natural Resources Forum

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-86

  Saravanan, V S ^a   Mcdonald, Geoffrey T ^b   Mollinga, Peter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communicative rationality; Policy; Power dynamics; Strategic action; Water resource management

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED APPROACH; LITERATURE REVIEW; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 64849087036     PISSN: 01650203     EISSN: 14778947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-8947.2009.01210.x     Document Type: Review

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