The politics of river basin organisations: Institutional design choices, coalitions and consequences

The Politics of River Basin Organisations: Coalitions, Institutional Design Choices and Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-37

  Huitema, Dave ^a,b   Meijerink, Sander ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84958600945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781782549222.00006     Document Type: Chapter

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