01236pab a2200181 454500 180718b2014 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Eshuis, Jasper Innovations in water governance: The importance of time 2014 p.401-420. Jun Time is often considered to be an inert background against which governance processes evolve. Instead, this article approaches time as a factor that influences the development of innovation process in water governance. Drawing on two Dutch cases, we analyse perceptions of time and the management of time. Public managers manage time by trying to fix deadlines, by synchronizing different timelines or by imposing their time horizon on the process. Different actors' timeframes may interfere with one another, and this may hinder governance process. The analysis of time helps to explain the dynamics of governance processes, and this article shows that the alignment of timeframes is a crucial activity in realizing innovations in governance. - Reproduced. Water resources management Buuren, Arwin van International Review of Administrative Sciences N 104506 104502 104502 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 80, Issue no: 2 AR104966 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR