Shifting Troubles: Decision-Making versus Implementation in Participatory Watershed Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-74

  Roggero, Matteo ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

European Water Framework Directive; Institutional change; Participation; Process design; Transaction cost economics; Watershed governance

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; TRANSACTION COST; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED;

EUROPE;

EID: 84873918371     PISSN: 1756932X     EISSN: 17569338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.1603     Document Type: Article

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