Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries: Rationale, contents and key messages

Community-based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-11

  Van Koppen, Barbara ^a   Giordano, Mark ^b   Butterworth, John ^c   Mapedza, Everisto ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^c IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community Based water law; Developing countries; IWRM; Public sector; Water reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890205118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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