Can water reform survive politics? Institutional change and river basin management in Ceará, Northeast Brazil

World Development

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2121-2137

  Lemos, Maria Carmen ^a   Farias De Oliveira, João Lúcio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DNOCS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cear ; Democratic decentralization; River basin management; Water; Water reform

Indexed keywords

BASIN MANAGEMENT; DECENTRALIZATION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BRAZIL; CEARA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8844267769     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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