Living on the Edge: A complexity-informed exploration of the human-water relationship

World Futures: Journal of General Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 275-285

  Simmons, Bruce ^a   Woog, Robert ^a   Dimitrov, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Humanity; hydrological system; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651464199     PISSN: 02604027     EISSN: 15561844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02604020601174927     Document Type: Review

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