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Water Governance Process Assessment : Evaluating the Link between Decision Making Processes and Outcomes in the Columbia River Basin

Creator:

Ogren, Kimberly

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Academics and practitioners agree that in water governance, the quality of a decision making process should influence the quality of the outcome and the degree to which it is accepted by interested parties. However, finding a feasible way to evaluate and then improve the quality of a decision making process...

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Dissertation

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grandparents (Barbara Fricker and Ted and Carolyn Ogren) for their unconditional love. Whatever I needed
Reallocating resources, rebuilding community : the Klamath Basin agreements and the emergence of adaptive governance

Creator:

Chaffin, Brian C.

Abstract:

The concept of "adaptive governance" represents a spectrum of hybrid approaches to environmental governance employed to guide management of complex social-ecological systems under conditions of high uncertainty. While the concept of adaptive governance has benefited from over a decade of theoretical development, empirical examples of transitions towards adaptive governance are...

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Dissertation