Political and Professional Agency Entrapment: An Agenda for Urban Water Research

Water Resources Management

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 4037-4050

  Brown, Rebekah ^a   Ashley, Richard ^b   Farrelly, Megan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Path dependency; Socio technical; Technological lock in; Urban water regime

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; LOCK-IN; PATH DEPENDENCY; SOCIOTECHNICAL; URBAN WATERS;

RESEARCH; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ENVIRONMENTALISM; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; UTILITY SECTOR; WATER INDUSTRY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 81255160995     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9886-y     Document Type: Article

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