Integrating water and agricultural management: Collaborative governance for a complex policy problem

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 5623-5630

  Fish, Rob D ^a   Ioris, Antonio A R ^b   Watson, Nigel M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive environmental management; Collaboration; Governance; Institutional arrangements; Inter disciplinary research

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; COLLABORATION; GOVERNANCE; INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT; INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCHES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WATER SUPPLY;

INTEGRATION;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; COMPLEXITY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MODELING; POLICY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CREATIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROLOGY; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; RISK FACTOR; SEWER; SOCIOLOGY; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC POLICY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77958084204     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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