Collaborative decision making in sustainable flood risk management: A socio-technical approach and tools for participatory governance

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 55, Issue , 2016, Pages 335-344

  Evers, Mariele ^a   Jonoski, Andreja ^b   Almoradie, Adrian ^a   Lange, Leonie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaborative decision making; Collaborative modelling; Participatory governance; Social learning; Socio technical tools; Sustainable flood risk management

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FLOODING; GERMANY; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84947256305     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.09.009     Document Type: Article

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