implementation of water demand management is required, (3) Flood and drought
management need to be integrally dealt with, and (4) Tailored action is key in
tackling drought and water scarcity effectively due to regional diversity.
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the explanation of regional governance arrangements. Paper presented at annual meeting of the
american political science association, Atlanta, 2–5 Sept 1999
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innovation programmes. Dissertation, Erasmus University of Rotterdam
Bressers H, Kuks S (2003) What does “governance” mean? From conception to elaboration. In:
Bressers H, Rosenbaum W (eds) Achieving sustainable development: the challenge of
governance across social scales. Praeger, Westport Connecticut, pp 65–88
Bressers H, Kuks S (eds) (2004) Integrated governance and water basin management. Conditions
for regime change and sustainability. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Bressers H, Lulofs K (eds) (2010) Governance and complexity in water management. Creating
cooperation through boundary spanning strategies. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
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processes in local stream restoration projects. University of Twente, Enschede
de Boer C, Bressers H (2011) Complex and dynamic implementation processes. Analyzing the
renaturalization of the Dutch Regge river. University of Twente and Water Governance Centre,
Enschede, The Hague
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management need to be integrally dealt with, and (4) Tailored action is key in
tackling drought and water scarcity effectively due to regional diversity.
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/), which
permits any noncommercial use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any
medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, a
link is provided to the Creative Commons license, and any changes made are indicated.
The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the work’s Creative
Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if such material is not included in
the work’s Creative Commons license and the respective action is not permitted by statutory
regulation, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to duplicate, adapt, or
reproduce the material.
References
Blomquist W, Schlager E (1999) Watershed management from the ground up: political science and
the explanation of regional governance arrangements. Paper presented at annual meeting of the
american political science association, Atlanta, 2–5 Sept 1999
Bressers N (2011) Co-creating innovation. A systemic learning evaluation of knowledge and
innovation programmes. Dissertation, Erasmus University of Rotterdam
Bressers H, Kuks S (2003) What does “governance” mean? From conception to elaboration. In:
Bressers H, Rosenbaum W (eds) Achieving sustainable development: the challenge of
governance across social scales. Praeger, Westport Connecticut, pp 65–88
Bressers H, Kuks S (eds) (2004) Integrated governance and water basin management. Conditions
for regime change and sustainability. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Bressers H, Lulofs K (eds) (2010) Governance and complexity in water management. Creating
cooperation through boundary spanning strategies. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
Casiano C, Bressers H (2015) Changes without changes. The Puebla’s Alto Atoyac sub-basin case
in Mexico. Water Gov 1(2):12–16
COPA COGECA (2003) Assessment of the impact of the heat wave and drought of the summer
2003 on agriculture and forestry
de Boer C (2012) Contextual water management. A study of governance and implementation
processes in local stream restoration projects. University of Twente, Enschede
de Boer C, Bressers H (2011) Complex and dynamic implementation processes. Analyzing the
renaturalization of the Dutch Regge river. University of Twente and Water Governance Centre,
Enschede, The Hague
de Boer C, Vinke-de Kruijf J, Özerol G, Bressers HTA (eds) (2013) Water governance, policy and
knowledge transfer. International studies on contextual water management. Earthscan—
Routledge, Oxford
EC (2007) Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council—
addressing the challenge of water scarcity and droughts in the European Union. COM (2007)
414 final, European Commission, Brussels. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/
PDF/?uri=CELEX:52007DC0414&from=EN. Accessed 14 Dec 2015
Edelenbos J, Teisman GR (2011) Symposium on water governance. Prologue: water governance
as a government’s actions between the reality of fragmentation and the need for integration. Int
Rev Admin Sci 77(1):5–30
Edelenbos J, Bressers N, Scholten P (2013) Water governance as connective capacity. Ashgate
Publishing, Farnham
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