Squeezed dry: The historical trajectory of the lower Jordan river basin

River Basin Trajectories: Societies, Environments and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 20-46

  Van Aken, Mauro ^a   Molle, François ^b   Venot, Jean Philippe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

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