Institutional cooperation at a basin level: For what, by whom? Lessons learned from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake

Natural Resources Forum

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-60

  Keskinen, Marko ^a   Varis, Olli ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Basin organization; Environmental governance; Institutional coordination; Institutional reform; Mekong River Basin; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

BASIN MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

CAMBODIA; MEKONG BASIN; TONLE SAP LAKE;

EID: 84857322721     PISSN: 01650203     EISSN: 14778947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-8947.2012.01445.x     Document Type: Article

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