Management of catchments for the protection of water resources: Drawing on the New York City watershed experience

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 311-326

  Smith, Laurence E D ^a   Porter, Keith S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MIT Sloan School of Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Catchment management; Diffuse pollution; Water quality; Wicked problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649903520     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-009-0102-z     Document Type: Article

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