Knowledge leads, policy follows? Two speeds of collaboration in river basin management

Water Policy

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL.2, 2013, Pages 282-299

  Pfeiffer, Ellen ^a   Leentvaar, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment Directorate Climate and Air Quality   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross level interplay; Institutional bargaining; Knowledge based collaboration; Regime formation; Rhine commission; Transboundary river basin management; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885412200     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2013.024     Document Type: Article

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