Identifying the conditions for social learning in water governance in regional Australia

Land Use Policy

Volumn 31, Issue , 2013, Pages 412-421

  Wallis, Philip J ^a   Ison, Raymond L ^a,b   Samson, Katelyn ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centralisation; Critical systems heuristics; Expertise; Social learning; Wicked situations

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LEARNING; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA; BROKEN RIVER; GOULBURN RIVER; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84871747885     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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