Print Email Facebook Twitter Assessing Management Regimes in Transboundary River Basins: Do They Support Adaptive Management? Title Assessing Management Regimes in Transboundary River Basins: Do They Support Adaptive Management? Author Raadgever, G.T. Mostert, E. Kranz, N. Interwies, E. Timmerman, J.G. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Date 2008-01-30 Abstract River basin management is faced with complex problems that are characterized by uncertainty and change. In transboundary river basins, historical, legal, and cultural differences add to the complexity. The literature on adaptive management gives several suggestions for handling this complexity. It recognizes the importance of management regimes as enabling or limiting adaptive management, but there is no comprehensive overview of regime features that support adaptive management. This paper presents such an overview, focused on transboundary river basin management. It inventories the features that have been claimed to be central to effective transboundary river basin management and refines them using adaptive management literature. It then collates these features into a framework describing actor networks, policy processes, information management, and legal and financial aspects. Subsequently, this framework is applied to the Orange and Rhine basins. The paper concludes that the framework provides a consistent and comprehensive perspective on transboundary river basin management regimes, and can be used for assessing their capacity to support adaptive management. Subject adaptive managementmanagement regimeorangeRhineriver basintransboundaryOA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a7d8635b-a88d-41ed-be18-8f5b3d230165 Publisher Resilience Alliance Peer Review and Publishing Services ISSN 1708-3087 Source http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art14/ Source Ecology and Society, 13 (1), 2008 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2008 The Author(s)Published under license by the Resilience Alliance Files PDF ES-2008-23851.pdf 528.56 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a7d8635b-a88d-41ed-be18-8f5b3d230165/datastream/OBJ/view