A gaming exercise to explore problem-solving versus relational activities for river floodplain management

Environmental Policy and Governance

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 454-471

  Stefanska, Joanna ^a   Magnuszewski, Piotr ^a   Sendzimir, Jan ^b   Romaniuk, Patrycja ^a   Taillieu, Tharsi ^e   Dubel, Anna ^b   Flachner, Zsuzsanna ^c   Balogh, Peter ^d  

^a Centre for Systems Solutions   (Poland)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d Association for Living Tisza   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Communications laboratory; Floodplains; Simulation games; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FLOODPLAIN; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; PLANNING METHOD; POLICY MAKING; RIVER MANAGEMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 82355183364     PISSN: 1756932X     EISSN: 17569338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.586     Document Type: Article

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