Nation-wide decentralized governance arrangements and capacities for integrated watershed management: Issues and insights from Canada

Environments

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1-47

  Robins, Lisa ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Robins Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Community participation; Decentralized governance; Integrated watershed management

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; DECENTRALIZATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTEGRATED APPROACH; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 59749091296     PISSN: 07116780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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