Where community-based water resource management has gone too far: Poverty and disempowerment in Southern Madagascar

Conservation and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 202-231

  Marcus, Richard R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambovombe; CBNRM; Community; Decentralisation; Governance; Madagascar; Power; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349784810     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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