Boundary organizations and environmental governance : Performance, institutional design, and conceptual development
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how the concept of boundary organization has come to be used and defined and explored its contribution to the discussion of the organization of the science-policy interplay.
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About: This article is published in Climate Risk Management. The article was published on 23 Nov 2017. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Organizational architecture & Informal organization.
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