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In 2000, a $7.8 billion plan was signed to help create a feasible and innovative approach to the drying-up problem of the Florida Everglades. The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) would be the first time that parties that used to oppose each other regarding this issue will cooperate to reach a common goal. The article describes this intriguing process from a memetics perspective and shows that CERP spread fast because it reconciled different interests.
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Her research interests are safeguarding public values in privatized utility sectors. Her Ph. D. thesis Bridges and Watersheds was published in 2001 (Aksant, Amsterdam) and analyzes the shifting public private divide in water management under conditions of globalization. She is editor of the journals Bestuurswetenschappen and of Work & Emotion. Her latest book (with de Bruijn et al.) is Creating System Innovations. How Large Scale Transitions Emerge, Taylor and Francis, London (2004).
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Dicke, W.M. Tales of a successful memeplex: How the water wars in the everglades were changed into a comprehensive plan. Know Techn Pol 16, 61–76 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12130-004-1015-2
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