Averted crises, contested transitions: Water management in the Upper Ping River basin, Northern Thailand

Water Policy Entrepreneurs: A Research Companion to Water Transitions around the Globe

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 137-157

  Lebel, Louis ^a   Garden, Po ^a   Subsin, Nutthawat ^a   Nan, Sakkarin Na ^a  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

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