Using good economic principles to make irrigators become true partners in water and environmental policies

Water and Agriculture: Sustainability, Markets and Policies

Volumn 9789264022577, Issue , 2006, Pages 37-55

  Garrido, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.1787/9789264022577-5-en     Document Type: Chapter

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