Data-sharing bottlenecks in transboundary integrated water resources management: a case study of the Mekong River Commission’s procedures for data sharing in the Thai context

Water International

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 933-951

  Plengsaeng, Bunthida ^a,b   Wehn, Uta ^a   van der Zaag, Pieter ^a,c  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b Buraeu of Research Development and Hydrology   (Thailand)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

data; data sharing; exchange; integrated water resources management; Mekong River Commission; theory of planned behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919846097     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2015.981783     Document Type: Article

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