Towards the transdisciplinary engineer: Incorporating ecology, equity and democracy concerns into water professionals' attitudes, skills and knowledge

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 58, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages

  Mollinga, Peter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary work; Transdisciplinarity; Water resources engineering; Water resources management

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649111300     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: 15310361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.510     Document Type: Article

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