Global Water Initiatives: What Do the Experts Think?

Water Resources Development and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 53-101

  Varady, Robert G ^a   Iles Shih, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global Water; Global Water Partnership; Professional Society; United Nations; World Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 85071499371     PISSN: 1614810X     EISSN: 2198316X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-37224-0_3     Document Type: Chapter

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