Water troubles in a Pacific atoll town

Water Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 613-637

  Moglia, Magnus ^a   Perez, Pascal ^b   Burn, Stewart ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Co management; Small town issues; Water management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149157224     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2008.004     Document Type: Review

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