Global water crisis: A joined-up view from the city

Sapiens

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Beck, M Bruce ^a   Walker, Rodrigo Villarroel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship and innovation; Resource recovery; Urban metabolism; Water policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868034741     PISSN: 19933800     EISSN: 19933819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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