Putting the cart before the horse: Water governance and IWRM

Natural Resources Forum

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Lautze, Jonathan ^a   De Silva, Sanjiv ^a   Giordano, Mark ^a   Sanford, Luke ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Good governance; Governance; IWRM; Management; Water

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 79951774152     PISSN: 01650203     EISSN: 14778947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-8947.2010.01339.x     Document Type: Article

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