Going with the flow: Sustainable water management as ontological cleaving

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 416-433

  Lavau, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ontological politics; Relational materiality; River management; Sustainable development; Technoscience; Water

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; RIVER MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA; GOULBURN RIVER; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84879160958     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d25411     Document Type: Article

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