Economics and livelihoods of small-scale inland fisheries in the Lower Mekong Basin: A survey of three communities in Cambodia

Water Policy

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 31-51

  Navy, Hap ^a   Bhattarai, Madhusudan ^b  

^a Fisheries Administration   (Cambodia)

^b AVRDC THE WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Cost benefit analysis; Economic analysis; Family fishing; Household survey; Mekong river basin; Participatory assessment; Trade off; Water allocations

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249107812     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2009.002     Document Type: Article

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