Impacts of Large Dams: Issues, Opportunities and Constraints

Water Resources Development and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-18

  Biswas, Asit K ^a,b  

^a Third World Centre for Water Management   (Mexico)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Hide Agenda; Rainwater Harvesting; Vested Interest; Water Development; World Commission

Indexed keywords

EID: 85071428521     PISSN: 1614810X     EISSN: 2198316X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23571-9_1     Document Type: Chapter

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