Towards better water governance in river basins: Some lessons learned from the Volga

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 285-297

  Nikitina, Elena ^a   Ostrovskaya, Elena ^b   Fomenko, Marina ^c  

^a PRIMAKOV NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF WORLD ECONOMY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS   (Russian Federation)

^b Caspian Marine Research Center   (Russian Federation)

^c Cadaster Research Innovation Institute   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

River basins; Stakeholders; Water governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649907822     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-009-0092-x     Document Type: Article

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