public administration, political geography,
and human ecology alike is the concept of
governance (Ostrom
1999, Pierre 2000, Hooghe
2003, Folke et al. 2005). Additionally, the concept
of governance is used and defined within economic
sciences such as institutional economics (e.g., Dixit
2004) and ecological economics (Costanza et al.
1999). As a result, there are many definitions of
governance. Van
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