Impact of institutions on flood policy learning

Water Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 232-249

  Rouillard, J J ^a   Heal, K V ^b   Reeves, A D ^a   Ball, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive governance; Flood management; Institutions; Policy learning; Scotland

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858639956     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2011.249     Document Type: Article

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