Water Management on the Island of IJsselmonde 1000 to 1953: Polycentric Governance, Adaptation, and Petrification

One of the central tenets of adaptive management is polycentric governance. Yet, despite the popularity of the concept, few detailed case studies of polycentric governance systems exist. In this paper, we aim to partly fill this gap. We describe water management between the years 1000 and 1953 on th...

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Main Author: Erik Mostert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2012-09-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss3/art12/

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