Scaling up of policy experiments and pilots: A qualitative comparative analysis and lessons for the water sector

Water Resources Management

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4945-4961

  Nair, Sreeja ^a   Howlett, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Policy experiments; Policy formulation; Policy pilots; Scaling up; Water management; Water policy

Indexed keywords

MONITORING AND EVALUATIONS; POLICY EXPERIMENTS; POLICY FORMULATION; QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; SCALING-UP; THEORY AND PRACTICE; WATER POLICIES; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

WATER MANAGEMENT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL INTEGRATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85027935587     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-015-1081-0     Document Type: Article

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