Water property relations and modern policy regimes: Neoliberal utopia and the disempowerment of collective action

Out of the Mainstream: Water Rights, Politics and Identity

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 27-55

  Achterhuis, Hans ^a   Boelens, Rutgerd ^b   Zwarteveen, Margreet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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