Indigenous Landscape Urbanism: Sri Lanka's Reservoir & Tank System

Journal of Landscape Architecture

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 6-17

  Shannon, Kelly ^a   Manawadu, Samitha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Landscape Urbanism; Reservoirs; Sri Lanka; Tanks; Water Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009321485     PISSN: 18626033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18626033.2007.9723384     Document Type: Article

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