Green infrastructure for flood-risk management in Dar es Salaam and Copenhagen: Exploring the potential for transitions towards sustainable urban water management

Water Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 126-142

  Mguni, P ^a   Herslund, L ^a   Jensen, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Flood risk; Institutional framework; Sustainable urban drainage systems; Sustainable urban water management; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922904505     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2014.047     Document Type: Article

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