Scale-Sensitivity as a Governance Capability: Observing, Acting and Enabling

Scale-Sensitive Governance of the Environment

Volumn 9781118567159, Issue , 2014, Pages 38-55

  Termeer, Catrien ^a   Dewulf, Art ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive governance; Logics of scale; Monocentric governance; Multilevel governance; Scale sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927686067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118567135.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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