Stalled regime transition

Sendzimir, Flachner, Pahl-Wostl and Knieper (2010) Stalled regime transition in the upper Tisza River Basin: the dynamics of linked action situations. Environmental Science & Policy. 13(7):604-619

 Tisza River map ===>

Jan Sendzimir from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; and Zsuzsana Flachner of the Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary completed this article with the help of the Management Transition Framework (MTF) experts Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Christian Knieper from the Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Osnabruck, in Osnabruck, Germany.

They discussed the transformation of the Tisza River governance system from the existing flood defense system to a more Adaptive Management (AM) process after a series of severe floods.  Specifically they used MTF, developed at Osnabruck, Germany, to assess the critical factors in transformation from the ineffective Command and Control system to the more progressive AM system.
The created MTF system chart is presented (see upper right), they discussed the components of it in detail and then reviewed this in context of their 7 different "hypothetical characteristics of river management regimes" including: Learning, Finance & Risk, Infrastructure, Info Management, Scale of Analysis, Sectoral Integration and finally Governance (below right).

Of these 7 characteristics Governance and Learning were most prevalent involved at 28.4% and 20.8% of the processes respectively.  In conclusion they found that "Governance and Learning opened the door to new ideas, but neither was sustained sufficiently by consistent leadership to secure transformation."