Explaining inertia in restoring estuarine dynamics in the Haringvliet (The Netherlands)

Water Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 880-896

  Marks, Peter Koenraad ^a   Gerrits, Lasse Martijn ^a   Bakker, Sandra ^b   Tromp, Edwin ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Staatsbosbeheer Strategy and External Affairs ^*  (Netherlands)

^c Regional Environmental Protection Agency   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attractors; Coevolution; Delta works; Haringvliet; Path dependency; Sluice control; Unpredictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920058169     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2014.124     Document Type: Article

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