Learning and Action Alliances for the integration of flood risk management into urban planning: A new framework from empirical evidence from The Netherlands

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 543-554

  van Herk, Sebastiaan ^a,b   Zevenbergen, Chris ^a,c   Ashley, Richard ^c   Rijke, Jeroen ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Bax Willems Consulting Venturing   (Spain)

^c UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complex decision making; Flood risk management; Learning and Action Alliance; Netherlands; Social learning; Transition; Urban planning and development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITY PLANNING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FLOODING; HUMAN; LEARNING AND ACTION ALLIANCE; NETHERLANDS; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL LEARNING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 79958112495     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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