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The co-constitution of regional politics and massive infrastructures in the Transaqua water project

Caner Sayan Orcid Logo, Nidhi Nagabhatla Orcid Logo

Territory, Politics, Governance, Volume: 12, Issue: 6, Pages: 804 - 824

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/21622671.2022.2043178

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Large-scale water infrastructure projects have seen a sudden surge to the top of the political agenda in many countries as a means of addressing developmental goals at both national and regional levels, despite a decline in funding for these projects in the 1990s and 2000s. The Transaqua inter-basin...

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ISSN: 2162-2671 2162-268X
Published: Informa UK Limited 2024
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