River Basin organizations in the global water discourse: An exploration of agency and strategy

Global Governance

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 307-326

  Mukhtarov, Farhad ^a,b   Gerlak, Andrea K ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Discourse; Networks; Political ecology; Political economy; Politics; River basin organizations; Scale; Transnational policy entrepreneurs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877311389     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: 19426720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01902009     Document Type: Article

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