Sustainability and the indispensability of politics: A study of sanitation partnerships in urban India

International Journal of Sustainable Society

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 376-392

  Gopakumar, Govind ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

India; Partnerships; Politics; Sanitation; Socio technical transition theory; Sustainability; Urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 82055200264     PISSN: 17562538     EISSN: 17562546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSSOC.2010.036942     Document Type: Article

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