Water and justice: Towards an ethics of water governance

Public Reason

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 97-113

  Doorn, Neelke ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributive justice; Human rights; Responsibility; Risk; Scarcity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891918668     PISSN: 20657285     EISSN: 20658958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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