On water security, sustainability, and the water-food-energy-climate nexus

Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering - Tập 7 Số 5 - Trang 626-639 - 2013
M.B. Beck1, Rodrigo Villarroel Walker1
1Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

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