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How Multilevel Societal Learning Processes Facilitate Transformative Change: A Comparative Case Study Analysis on Flood Management

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dc.contributor.author Pahl-Wostl, Claudia
dc.contributor.author Becker, Gert
dc.contributor.author Knieper, Christian
dc.contributor.author Sendzimir, Jan
dc.date.accessioned 2014-01-23T20:59:51Z
dc.date.available 2014-01-23T20:59:51Z
dc.date.issued 2013 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9216
dc.description.abstract "Sustainable resources management requires a major transformation of existing resource governance and management systems. These have evolved over a long time under an unsustainable management paradigm, e.g., the transformation from the traditionally prevailing technocratic flood protection toward the holistic integrated flood management approach. We analyzed such transformative changes using three case studies in Europe with a long history of severe flooding: the Hungarian Tisza and the German and Dutch Rhine. A framework based on societal learning and on an evolutionary understanding of societal change was applied to identify drivers and barriers for change. Results confirmed the importance of informal learning and actor networks and their connection to formal policy processes. Enhancing a society’s capacity to adapt is a long-term process that evolves over decades, and in this case, was punctuated by disastrous flood events that promoted windows of opportunity for change." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject comparative analysis en_US
dc.subject Rhine River en_US
dc.subject adaptive systems en_US
dc.subject flood management en_US
dc.subject water management en_US
dc.title How Multilevel Societal Learning Processes Facilitate Transformative Change: A Comparative Case Study Analysis on Flood Management en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Theory en_US
dc.coverage.region Europe en_US
dc.subject.sector Water Resource & Irrigation en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Ecology and Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 18 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 4 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth December en_US


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