Household Water Insecurity in the Global North: A Study of Rural and Periurban Settlements on the Texas–Mexico Border

Professional Geographer

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 66-81

  Jepson, Wendy ^a   Vandewalle, Emily ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

colonias; household water security; logistic regression; Texas; water resources

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; LOW INCOME POPULATION; PERIURBAN AREA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; WATER RESOURCE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84949623659     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2015.1028324     Document Type: Article

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