Governance experimentation and factors of success in socio-technical transitions in the urban water sector

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1340-1353

  Bos, J J ^a   Brown, R R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical factors; Governance experimentation; Learning; Transition experiments; Transition management; Urban water

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL FACTORS; GOVERNANCE EXPERIMENTATION; LEARNING; TRANSITION EXPERIMENT; TRANSITION MANAGEMENT; URBAN WATERS;

WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EXPERIMENTS;

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LEARNING; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84863775851     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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