Science and management of transboundary lakes: Lessons learned from the global environment facility program

Environmental Development

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-31

  Servos, Mark R ^a   Munkittrick, Kelly R ^b   Constantin, Gheorghe ^c   Mngodo, Raymond ^d   Aladin, Nikolay ^e   Choowaew, Sansanee ^f   Hap, Navy ^g   Kidd, Karen A ^b   Odada, Eric ^h   Parra, Oscar ⁱ   Phillips, Geoffrey ^j   Ryanzhin, Sergei ^e   Urrutia, Roberto ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c Romanian Ministry of Environment   (Romania)

^d Lake Victoria Basin Commission   (Kenya)

^e RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^f MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^g Fisheries Administration   (Cambodia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^j not available   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

GEF IW Science; Lake ecosystems; Lake management; Policy development; Transboundary waters

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880633415     PISSN: 22114645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2013.04.005     Document Type: Article

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