Challenges of linking scientific knowledge to river basin management policy: AquaTerra as a case study

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 867-874

  Slob, A F L ^a   Rijnveld, M ^a   Chapman, A S ^b   Strosser, P ^c  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c Acteon ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Policy; River basin management; Science; Two communities theory; Use of knowledge

Indexed keywords

POLICY MAKERS; RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT; TWO-COMMUNITIES THEORY;

DECISION MAKING; GROUNDWATER; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENTS; SOILS;

RIVER BASIN PROJECTS;

GROUND WATER;

BASIN MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN UNION; POLICY MAKING; RIVER BASIN;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EUROPEAN UNION; KNOWLEDGE; LAND USE; LANGUAGE; POLICY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SOIL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH; RIVERS; SCIENCE;

EID: 34250318623     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.01.048     Document Type: Article

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