Exploring governance learning: How policymakers draw on evidence, experience and intuition in designing participatory flood risk planning

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 55, Issue , 2016, Pages 353-360

  Newig, Jens ^a   Kochskämper, Elisa ^a   Challies, Edward ^a   Jager, Nicolas W ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

EU Floods Directive; Evidence based governance; Flood risk management; Policy design; Policy experimentation; Policy learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTATION; FLOODING; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INTUITION; LEARNING; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84947206676     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.07.020     Document Type: Article

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