An infrastructural event: Making sense of Panama's drought

Water Alternatives

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 888-909

  Carse, Ashley ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Infrastructure; Panama; Scale; Water politics

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; GEOPOLITICS; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; WATER DEMAND;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 85030554412     PISSN: 19650175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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