The costs and benefits of implementing the European Urban Waste Water Directive in Greece

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Water Resources Management

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 176-194

  Kontogianni, Areti D ^a   Skourtos, Michalis S ^b   Zanou, Barbara ^c   Langford, Ian H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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