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Volume 30, 2017 - Issue 4: Water Crises & Institutions: Governance Challenges in an Era of Uncertainty
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CRISES OF POWER

When Policy Hits Practice: Structure, Agency, and Power in South African Water Governance

Jan Janosch FörsterMonash University–Monash South Africa, Water Research Node, Roodepoort, Gauteng, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Linda DownsboroughMonash University–Monash South Africa, Water Research Node, Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa
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Machaya Jeff ChombaSchool of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Pages 521-536 | Received 31 Aug 2015, Accepted 13 Nov 2016, Published online: 19 Jan 2017

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