Water Transfer Planning in Northeast Thailand: Rhetoric and Practice

Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 19-38

  Floch, Philippe ^a   Blake, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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