Challenges to Water Security along the “Emerald Coast”: A Political Ecology of Local Water Governance in Nicaragua

LaVanchy, G. Thomas; Romano, Sarah T.; Taylor, Matthew

doi:10.3390/w9090655

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“…The state protection through legislation that should have replaced the community protection is hampered by weak enforcement in the cases studied, resulting in the illegal conversion of common land required for the water management to other land uses. Similar issues related to weak state control have been reported by others [20,27,49,50]. However, this research has brought attention to the fact that land use change plays a significant role in the breaking up of the linkages within the system that supported community management by exploiting the weak enforcement of the legislation by the state.…”

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Evaluating the Functioning Mechanisms of ‘TANK Systems’ in Peri-Urban Areas of Chennai, India—Land Use Change as the Determinant

Harishankar

Vedamuthu

2019

Water

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Ensuring the sustenance of water resources that act as sources of water for cities threatened by urbanization and developmental pressures is a crucial problem in peri-urban areas. The objective of this research was to establish the role of change in agricultural land use as a determinant in the evaluation of the existing water management system and to ascertain whether the control by the government or community management can be effective in ensuring the sustenance of water resources in peri-urban areas. The cases selected for the study were the water management systems present in two villages located in the peri-urban areas of Chennai, India. This research adopted a case study strategy with mixed methods of analyses. The analysis traces trajectories of change in the land use of agricultural lands and the common lands related to water management through methods, trend analysis, analysis of spatial patterns of change and the changes in the components of the community management. Results from the analysis indicated that under the context of intensive change from agricultural to nonagricultural land uses, the interlinkages within the traditional community management model had broken up, making community control improbable. The current management model of the government was also found to be inadequate. Results indicated that government agencies with trained personnel engaged in periodic maintenance activities, constant monitoring against encroachment, and pollution, and through the formation of user associations under their control can ensure the sustenance of water resources.

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confidence: 72%

Evaluating the Functioning Mechanisms of ‘TANK Systems’ in Peri-Urban Areas of Chennai, India—Land Use Change as the Determinant

Harishankar

Vedamuthu

2019

Water

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“…While sustainability is stated in tourism development plans and policies, few criteria that adequately consider the limited capacities of water resources or definitions of sustainable thresholds for water exploitation, policies or environmentally responsible measures, are actually implemented (Tekken & Kropp, 2015). Lack of regulation and weak water governance is a repeated theme in the literature (Alonso‐Almeida, Robin, Pedroche, & Astorga, 2017; Cole, 2017; Cole & Browne, 2015; Cole & Ferguson, 2015; Dinarès & Saurí, 2015; Kasim, Gursoy, Okumus, & Wong, 2014; Razumova, Rey‐Maquieira, & Lozano, 2016; Tekken & Kropp, 2015; LaVanchy, Romano, & Taylor, 2017).…”

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“Tourism, water, and gender”—An international review of an unexplored nexus

Cole

Mullor²,

et al. 2020

WIREs Water

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This international literature review of the tourism–water nexus identifies a gender gap. Tourism development can affect water supply both quantitatively and qualitatively. Many regions will face considerable problems of water availability and quality, affecting their tourism sector and increasing competition with local residents, and other industries especially agriculture. This international review of literature explores the tourism–water nexus, comparing and contrasting literature published in English, Chinese, and Spanish. Securing access to safe water for continued tourism development is a common theme and the vast majority of work has focused on hotels including water pricing, water‐saving practices and innovative management methods. In all continents, struggles are apparent, and the unsustainability of tourism is having impacts on water quantity and quality. This article identifies significant gaps in the literature including climate change, the energy‐water nexus, and the links with the Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, studies from a gendered perspective are minimal and the potential for areas of further gendered studies within the tourism–water nexus are highlighted including intersectionality, water insecurity and sanitation, tourism and gender based violence, and additional unpaid care work. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Planning Water Human Water > Water Governance Human Water > Rights to Water

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“…The challenges presented by complex multilevel water governance systems may be readily overcome by some municipalities and may be sources of constant conflict and barriers to effective governance in others (Hileman et al 2016, LaVanchy et al 2017. To further complicate this issue, municipalities are subject to pressure from a multitude of interest groups, including partisan political groups, and must grapple with both the social and ecological consequences of the decisions they make.…”

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The unique role of municipalities in integrated watershed governance arrangements: a new research frontier

García¹,

Hileman²,

Bodin³

et al. 2019

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Local governments, or municipalities, play a key role in water governance around the world owing to the many administrative competencies they hold, ranging from water service delivery to urban planning. However, the ability of municipalities to carry out their competencies effectively depends in large part on the characteristics of the institutional arrangements in which they are embedded. In particular, the relationship between municipalities and watershed governance institutions has received little attention in the literature on polycentric and multilevel governance. Drawing on insights from diverse cases around the world, we argue that empirical research must pay closer attention to the links, or lack thereof, between municipalities and watershed governance institutions to improve the sustainability of water governance outcomes in practice. We identify a set of critical issues affecting municipalities' engagement in governance at the watershed scale that broadly apply across different contexts, and which we argue deserve more attention in future research: (1) disconnect and ambiguities of authority across hierarchical levels; (2) internal and external challenges to municipalities engaging in effective collaborations; (3) barriers to expanding the scope of traditional municipal affairs; and (4) misalignment of biophysical, institutional, and political timescales.

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Challenges to Water Security along the “Emerald Coast”: A Political Ecology of Local Water Governance in Nicaragua

Cited by 15 publications

References 58 publications

Evaluating the Functioning Mechanisms of ‘TANK Systems’ in Peri-Urban Areas of Chennai, India—Land Use Change as the Determinant

Evaluating the Functioning Mechanisms of ‘TANK Systems’ in Peri-Urban Areas of Chennai, India—Land Use Change as the Determinant

“Tourism, water, and gender”—An international review of an unexplored nexus

The unique role of municipalities in integrated watershed governance arrangements: a new research frontier

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