Revisiting River Management Options: Stakeholders, Levees, and the Public Policy Controversies of Degraded Infrastructure

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 239-257

  Stoutenborough, James W ^a  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

levees; public policy; risk management; risk perceptions; river management; stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973276816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rhc3.12083     Document Type: Article

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