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| Booher, David E.; Center for Collaborative Policy, California State University Sacramento; dbooher@berkeley.edu; Innes, Judith E.; Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California Berkeley; jinnes@berkeley.edu. |
| A study of California’s water planning and management process, known as CALFED, offers insights into governance strategies that can deal with adaptive management of environmental resources in ways that conventional bureaucratic procedures cannot. CALFED created an informal policy-making system, engaging multiple agencies and stakeholders. The research is built on data from 5 years of field work that included interviews with participants, review of documents, and observation of meetings. We argue that CALFED can be seen as a self-organizing complex adaptive network (CAN) in which interactions were generally guided by collaborative heuristics. The case demonstrates several innovative governance practices, including new practices and norms for... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaborative governance; Complex adaptive systems; Consensus building; Policy network; Resilient resource management; Water policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
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