How Does Socio-institutional Diversity Affect Collaborative Governance of Social-Ecological Systems in Practice?
Social and institutional diversity ("diversity" hereafter) are important dimensions in collaborative environmental governance, but lack empirical assessment. In this paper, we examine three aspects of diversity hypothesized in the literature as being important in collaborative forms of environmental...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 200 - 215 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2019
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