Conservatives and champions: River managers and the river restoration discourse in the United Kingdom

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1929-1942

  Adams, William M ^a   Perrow, Martin R ^b   Carpenter, Angus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODPLAIN; RIVER ENGINEERING; RIVER MANAGEMENT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 9744264837     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3637     Document Type: Article

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