Room for the river: Delivering integrated river basin management in the netherlands

International Journal of River Basin Management

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 369-382

  Rijke, Jeroen ^a,b   van Herk, Sebastiaan ^a,b   Zevenbergen, Chris ^a,b   Ashley, Richard ^a,c  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delta programme; Flooding; Integrated river basin management; Room for the river; The netherlands; Transition; Water

Indexed keywords

BASIN MANAGEMENT; DELTA; FLOODING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; RIVER BASIN; WATER MANAGEMENT;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84874320989     PISSN: 15715124     EISSN: 18142060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2012.739173     Document Type: Article

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