Governing long-term social-ecological change: What can the adaptive management and transition management approaches learn from each other?

Environmental Policy and Governance

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-20

  Foxon, Timothy J ^a   Reed, Mark S ^a   Stringer, Lindsay C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Social ecological change; Socio technical change; Transition management

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LEARNING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; STAKEHOLDER; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67549112167     PISSN: 1756932X     EISSN: 17569338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.496     Document Type: Article

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