relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/310/
title: Possibilities for Complex Adaptive Systems in Water Management projects in the province of Groningen
creator: Alma, M.
description: Water Management projects are increasingly faced with complex issues due to changes in both physical and social systems in planning processes and decision making. Recognizing both systems is key in addressing today’s relevant issues that policy makers in water management face, such as climate change, population trends, and increased calls for bottom-up governance. This thesis draws upon complexity theory, analyzing key concepts of nonlinear development, contextual interferences, co-evolution, and self-organization in four case studies. Analysis shows that coastal projects in water management are open towards incorporating key concepts of complexity, though within contained areas and under central coordination by government. This applies to the physical system but not the social system. Further exploration and incorporation of complexity on the social dimension could be beneficial if the regional programs seek to further profile themselves as adaptive and economically stimulating, providing new insights and possibly successful trajectories of bottom-up governance.
date: 2019
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/310/1/MikeAlma_MasterThesis_Environm_1.pdf
identifier:   Alma, M.  (2019) Possibilities for Complex Adaptive Systems in Water Management projects in the province of Groningen.  Master thesis.