Applying the strategic-relational approach to urban political ecology: The water management problems of the baixada fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Antipode

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 122-150

  Ioris, Antonio Augusto Rossotto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baixada Fluminense; Political ecology; Rio de Janeiro; Strategic relational approach; Trialectics; Water governance

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLOODING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; URBAN POLITICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WETLAND;

BRAZIL; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL];

EID: 84856154488     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00848.x     Document Type: Article

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