Cost recovery in times of demographic change: Portugal's domestic water policy

Water Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 326-342

  Egerton, Catrin ^a   Santos, Rui ^a   Almeida, João ^b   Alves, David ^b   Carvalho, Edgar ^a   Robalo, Gisela ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b IRAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cost recovery; Policy scale; Rural development; Water services

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958701890     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2010.212     Document Type: Article

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