Environmental flows in shared watercourses: Review of assessment methods and relevance in the transboundary setting

Transboundary Water Management: Principles and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 107-124

  Brown, Cate ^a   King, Jackie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781849776585     Document Type: Chapter

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