Exploring institutional adaptive capacity in practice: Examining water governance adaptation in Australia

Ecology and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bettini, Yvette ^a,b   Brown, Rebekah R ^b   de Haan, Fjalar J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Institutions; Resilience; Transformation; Water governance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84929312478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-07291-200147     Document Type: Article

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