The social construction of scarcity: The case of water in western India

Global Political Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 371-386

  Mehta, Lyla ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b NORAGRIC   (Norway)

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