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Does problem complexity matter for environmental policy delivery? How public authorities address problems of water governance.
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In this paper, the authors studied 37 types of contemporary problems defined by German water governance to assess the impact of problem complexity on policy delivery through public authorities and found that complexity in fact tends to delay implementation at the stage of planning.About:
This article is published in Journal of Environmental Management.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 30 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Environmental governance & Corporate governance.read more
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The state-of-the-art system dynamics application in integrated water resources modeling.
Mehdi Zomorodian,Sai Hin Lai,Mehran Homayounfar,Shaliza Ibrahim,Seyed Ehsan Fatemi,Ahmed El-Shafie +5 more
TL;DR: This review contains a comprehensive survey of the existing literature on System Dynamics as a potential method to deal with the complexity of system integrated modeling, with a particular focus on the application of SD to the integrated modeling of water resources systems.
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Government in the Republic of Cyprus : responding to the problems of water scarcity and quality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" and "uncertainty" in the context of video games.2.3.2
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Water in Central Asia: an integrated assessment for science-based management
Daniel Karthe,Iskandar Abdullaev,Bazartseren Boldgiv,Dietrich Borchardt,Dietrich Borchardt,Sergey Chalov,Jerker Jarsjö,Lanhai Li,Jeffrey A. Nittrouer +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide documentation of the current state of scientific knowledge, ranging from hydrological research to water quality investigations, and offer an assessment of ecosystems and the services provided by them.
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Success factors for citizen science projects in water quality monitoring.
Anna San Llorente Capdevila,Ainur Kokimova,Saunak Sinha Ray,Tamara Avellán,Jiwon Kim,Sabrina Kirschke +5 more
TL;DR: A systematic literature review of 56 peer-reviewed research articles identifies three sets of factors for successful citizen science projects in water quality monitoring: attributes of citizens, attributes of institutions, and the interactions between citizens and institutions.
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Addressing Complexity in Environmental Management and Governance
Sabrina Kirschke,Jens Newig +1 more
TL;DR: A more differentiated theoretical approach to define governance for complex environmental problem solving than in previous studies is suggested, which operationalize complexity and define management strategies for solving environmental sustainability problems based on findings from psychology research.
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Dilemmas in a general theory of planning
TL;DR: The search for scientific bases for confronting problems of social policy is bound to fail, becuase of the nature of these problems as discussed by the authors, whereas science has developed to deal with tame problems.
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Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems
Michael Howlett,M. Ramesh +1 more
TL;DR: This book discusses the development of public policy levels, methods, and units in the post-modern era, as well as some of the aspects of policy formation and change that have changed over the years.
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The Policy Implementation Process: A Conceptual Framework
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Wicked Problems: Implications for Public Policy and Management
TL;DR: The concept of "wicked problems" has attracted increasing focus in policy research, but the implications for public organizations have received less attention as mentioned in this paper. But the main organizational and cognitive dimensions emerging from the research literature on wicked problems.
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Wicked Problems, Knowledge Challenges, and Collaborative Capacity Builders in Network Settings
TL;DR: A fundamental challenge to effectively managing any public problem in a networked setting is the transfer, receipt and integration of knowledge across participants, which presents a challenge to the network literature to consider the mind-set of the managers—or collaborative capacity-builders—who are working to achieve solutions to wicked problems.
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