Ten fundamental questions for water resources development in the Ganges: Myths and realities

Water Policy

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 147-164

  Sadoff, Claudia ^a   Harshadeep, Nagaraja Rao ^a   Blackmore, Donald ^b   Wu, Xun ^c   O'Donnell, Anna ^a   Jeuland, Marc ^d   Lee, Sylvia ^e   Whittington, Dale ^f  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b Independent Researcher   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Skoll Global Threats Fund   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ganges; Hydro economic modelling; International rivers; River basin management; South Asia water; Transboundary waters

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885407684     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2013.006     Document Type: Article

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