Further down the road to sustainable environmental flows: Funding, management activities and governance for six western US states

Water International

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 873-893

  Loehman, Edna T ^a   Charney, Sasha ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boulder County Parks and Open Space   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental flow; funding; instream flow; prior appropriation; public good; sustainable management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858134752     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2011.628803     Document Type: Article

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