Water sustainability: Anthropological approaches and prospects

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 39, Issue , 2010, Pages 401-415

  Orlove, Ben ^a   Caton, Steven C ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

equity; governance; integrated water resource management; politics; regimes; value

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; HEGEMONY; POLITICAL RELATIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE;

EID: 77957973762     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.105045     Document Type: Article

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