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Between Ecology and Economy: From Rigid to Flexible Water Defense Systems in the Netherlands

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dc.contributor.author Raadschelders, Jos C. N. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:39:57Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:39:57Z
dc.date.issued 1992 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-07-24 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-07-24 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1830
dc.description.abstract "The leading question for this paper is thus: What changes in the institutional arrangements in the Netherlands are required to make a shift from a rigid to a flexible water defense system possible? "In order to analyze this issue we will briefly outline our theoretical framework (section 2) and describe the institutional environment of Dutch water defense (section 3). In this section we will in broad outline describe the development of water defense systems. Some illustrations will indicate why flooding is such an important issue in the Netherlands. We will then describe current Dutch policy and environmental critique (section 4). More than other sections, section 4 shows how passionate the different points of view are defended. Next we will present types of rigid and flexible systems together with their (dis)advantages (section 5). These too will be clarified by means of illustrations. Drawing upon the information from sections 3 to 5 we can analyze the institutional impediments against a change from a rigid to a more flexible system (section 6). In the final section we shall attempt to provide provide an answer as to how government can steer between economic and ecological interests." en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.subject ecology en_US
dc.subject economy en_US
dc.subject water resources en_US
dc.subject resource management en_US
dc.title Between Ecology and Economy: From Rigid to Flexible Water Defense Systems in the Netherlands en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.coverage.region Europe en_US
dc.coverage.country Netherlands en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.subject.sector Water Resource & Irrigation en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Inequality and the Commons, the Third Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates September 17-20, 1992 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Washington en_US
dc.submitter.email aurasova@indiana.edu en_US


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