The shifting territorialities of the Rhone River’s transboundary governance: a historical analysis of the evolution of the functions, uses and spatiality of river basin governance

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 549-558

  Bréthaut, Christian ^a   Pflieger, Géraldine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Functional regulatory space; Hydroelectricity; IWRM; Rhone; Water governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922530832     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0541-4     Document Type: Article

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