Innovations in the Dutch polder: Communities of practice and the challenge of coevolution

E:CO Emergence: Complexity and Organization

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-49

  van Buuren, Arwin ^a   Edelenbos, Jurian ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33744832045     PISSN: 15213250     EISSN: 15217000     Source Type: Journal    
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