Assessing the resilience of a river management regime: Informal learning in a shadow network in the Tisza River Basin

Ecology and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Sendzimir, Jan ^a   Magnuszewski, Piotr ^a,b   Flachner, Zsuzsanna ^c   Balogh, Peter ^a   Molnar, Geza ^a   Sarvari, Attila ^d   Nagy, Zsuzsanna ^e  

^a IIASA ^*

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d Thistle Cötkény Alliance for Regional Development   (Hungary)

^e Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Flooding; Floodplain; Regime shift; Resilience; Tisza River; Transformability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLITICAL INTEGRATION; RIVER MANAGEMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY; TISZA BASIN;

EID: 50149122429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-02239-130111     Document Type: Article

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