Social-ecological resilience and social conflict: Institutions and strategic adaptation in Swedish water management

Ambio

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 567-572

  Galaz, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRATEGIC APPROACH; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 28544439527     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-34.7.567     Document Type: Article

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64. This study was performed within the Swedish Water Management Research Program (VASTRA), which is financed by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA). The author is grateful to various researchers in VASTRA, the Department of Political Science, Göteborg University, and at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Environmental Research (CTM), Stockholm University, for comments on earlier drafts. Special thanks to Lennart J. Lundqvist, Henrik Ernstson, Thomas Hahn, Patrik Stålgren, Lowell Pritchard, and Yvonne Rydin for important comments on the final draft of the manuscript.