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Institutional Resource Regimes and Sustainability

Theoretical backgrounds and hypotheses

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Integrated Governance and Water Basin Management

Part of the book series: Environment & Policy ((ENPO,volume 41))

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This chapter does not attempt to present the voluminous world literature on the topic of institutional regime analysis. Only a small selection of this literature will be dealt with. Our main purpose here is to present the theoretical notions that we have chosen or developed -- standing on the shoulders of many others -- and used in this particular research project. Furthermore, we formulate our hypotheses about regime shift towards integration and the implications of institutional resource regimes for sustainability.

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Bressers, H., Fuchs, D., Kuks, S. (2004). Institutional Resource Regimes and Sustainability. In: Bressers, H., Kuks, S. (eds) Integrated Governance and Water Basin Management. Environment & Policy, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2482-5_2

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