Water grabbing in colonial perspective: Land and water in Israel/Palestine

Water Alternatives

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 450-468

  Gasteyer, Stephen ^a   Isaac, Jad ^b   Hillal, Jane ^b   Walsh, Sean ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Applied Research Institute Jerusalem   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Colonisation; Israel Palestine; Place modernisation; Water grabbing; Zionism

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; MODERNIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

ISRAEL; PALESTINE;

EID: 84871486672     PISSN: 19650175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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