Fixing and nixing: The politics of water privatization

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 213-230

  Ahlers, Rhodante ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accumulation by dispossession; Irrigated agriculture; Mexico; Privatization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952396788     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: 15528502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0486613410368497     Document Type: Article

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