What's your story? Practitioners' tacit knowledge and water demand management policies in southern Africa and Canada

Water Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 489-503

  Wolfe, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Municipal; Namibia; Norms; Ontario; Organizations; Practitioners; South Africa; Tacit knowledge; Toronto; Water demand management; Waterloo

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249108495     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2009.059     Document Type: Article

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