“…Yet, the strategies in these countries may encounter different challenges in addressing the sustainability issues of the fen landscapes, because, for example, the external or contextual settings, the local institutional relationships or the customary way to intervene in such issues may differ. For example, the Dutch decision-making style may be typified as negotiation-oriented (Priemus, 2002(Priemus, , 2007Tan et al, 2009), whereas the UK style may be typified as oriented at centralized decision-making (Albrechts et al, 2003;Vigar, 2009). Therefore, it is interesting and relevant to comparatively analyse German, Dutch and UK strategies.…”