The Colorado river: What prospect for 'a river no more'?

River Basin Trajectories: Societies, Environments and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 123-146

  Kenney, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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