From Water Productivity to Water Security: A Paradigm Shift?

Water Security: Principles, Perspectives and Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 148-165

  Clement, Floriane ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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