The politics of reflexive governance: Challenges for designing adaptive management and transition management

Ecology and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Voß, Jan Peter ^a   Bornemann, Basil ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Embedding in political context; Governance design; Politics; Reflexive governance; Societal learning; Transition management

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; POLITICAL RELATIONS; POWER RELATIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 79959941086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-04051-160209     Document Type: Article

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