On the difficulty of managing an invisible resource: Farmers' strategies and perceptions of groundwater use, field evidence from Morocco

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 58, Issue 3 SUPPL. 3, 2009, Pages

  Bekkar, Younes ^a,b   Kuper, Marcel ^a,c   Errahj, Mostafa ^b   Faysse, Nicolas ^a,b   Gafsi, Mohamed ^d  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b National School for Agriculture   (Morocco)

^c INSTITUT AGRONOMIQUE ET VÉTÉRINAIRE HASSAN II   (Morocco)

^d Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès   (France)

Author keywords

Farm strategy; Groundwater; Groundwater use; Institutions; Social representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 69649103492     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: 15310361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.527     Document Type: Article

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