countries highly decentralised. Cooperation is one instrument to improve efficiency and effectiveness towards a sustainable … water management. Cooperation is mainly directed to relationships between water utilities, independent of size and … organization and should be realised on a voluntary basis. A cooperation could take place between two water supply utilities or …

distribution of major types of cooperation among entities listed in the German prime standard. Results indicate almost an … omnipresence of cooperation, in a variety of types. At the same time, the apparent diversity in the applied terms hinders …

integrated administrative action. This involves not only the interdisciplinary cooperation of various departments across …

The paper develops a sociological approach for understanding the role of expectations in collective action. It argues …

working group traced the rationale of relevant actors, investigated different types of cooperation, and identified obstacles … and success factors of cooperation. This showed the contribution of cooperative approaches for the integrated planning of …

law - which focus on cooperation and provide positive incentives for this. This will have beneficial effects on all …

urban regional cooperation structures are currently weakly institutionalised and barely defined. Against this background … analysis as well as the calculation of an interconnection index. By means of the "paradox of interconnection and cooperation …" the totally different structures of the city-regional functional interconnections and the inter-municipal cooperation are …