Interactive institutional design and contextual relevance: Water user groups in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 206-214

  Mukhtarov, Farhad ^a   Fox, Svenja ^b   Mukhamedova, Nozilakhon ^c   Wegerich, Kai ^c  

^a ADA UNIVERSITY   (Azerbaijan)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c International Water Management Institute Central Asia ^*  (Uzbekistan)

Author keywords

Azerbaijan; Collaborative approaches; Institutional design; Turkey; Uzbekistan; Water user associations

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; AZERBAIJAN; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MANAGED CARE; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; SOCIOECONOMICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UZBEKISTAN; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84939260803     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.10.006     Document Type: Article

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