Climate change and water policy in Australia's irrigation areas: a lost opportunity for a partnership model of governance

Alston, Margaret; Whittenbury, Kerri

doi:10.1080/09644016.2011.617175

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“…This is because while mitigation was framed as a global challenge, adaptation (which is more closely related to water) was defined as a local challenge in the Climate Convention (Bodansky, 1993). This was done to reduce rich countries' liabilities in relation to adaptation (Gupta, 2014a), and water users and the perceived impacts of use are primarily local (Alston & Whittenbury, 2011). This arguably led to water's receiving significantly less attention within the climate change regime and groundwater receiving only a small share of the attention within that.…”

Section: Discursive Normative and Substantive Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global climate change and global groundwater law: their independent and pluralistic evolution and potential challenges

Gupta

Conti

2017

Water International

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Although the climate and groundwater systems have close links, the international climate change regime and global groundwater laws have developed independently, despite being negotiated within a few years of each other. Hence this article addresses the question: Do global legal instruments on climate change and groundwater consider the geophysical links between the two systems, and how can their legal frameworks be improved? It argues that there are six geophysical links between groundwater and climate change which are presently inadequately accounted for in the legal regimes and there are four key contradictions between the two legal systems. It makes four recommendations to enhance the linkages between the systems. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Discursive Normative and Substantive Challengesmentioning

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Global climate change and global groundwater law: their independent and pluralistic evolution and potential challenges

Gupta

Conti

2017

Water International

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“…Community involvement, while important, is insufficient to address systemic problems; however, community engagement models that aim to mobilise and motivate people can be meaningfully applied to climatechange adaptation (Wiseman et al 2011) Studying social responses to major water reform, Alston and Whittenbury (2011) argue that the commitment to devolution and participation are critical to the success of reforms and they define the over-arching need as one of establishing functional meta-governance arrangements. The recommendations of Dovers (2001) for institutional redesign and the proposed principles for NRM governance are also calls for reforms that support more functional metagovernance arrangements.…”

Section: Devolved Participatory Approaches and Community Involvementmentioning

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“…Successful natural resources reforms rely on much more than the skilful selection of policy instruments because the implementation of major policy reforms has the potential for significant transitional impacts on communities, and policy development and implementation are generally improved by active participation of the affected communities, so they are involved in the co-creation of the future (Alston and Whittenbury 2011). Community involvement, while important, is insufficient to address systemic problems; however, community engagement models that aim to mobilise and motivate people can be meaningfully applied to climatechange adaptation (Wiseman et al 2011) Studying social responses to major water reform, Alston and Whittenbury (2011) argue that the commitment to devolution and participation are critical to the success of reforms and they define the over-arching need as one of establishing functional meta-governance arrangements.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While the goal of sustainable land use remains elusive, over the past two decades, significant momentum has been generated and a suite of reforms and innovations has contributed to changing the way Australians perceive and manage natural resources-part of the journey of learning to live as Australians in this vast, beautiful, and biologically rich continent (Alexandra and Riddington 2007;Gammage 2011). Australia's NRM policies and institutional arrangements will continue to evolve, and continue to support devolved, participatory approaches and community involvement that contributes to functional systems of meta-governance (Dovers 2001;Ryan et al 2010;Alston and Whittenbury 2011).…”

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“…Instead, approaches to understanding and working skilfully with the dynamic social, economic, and ecological systems are required. Investments in large-scale science, monitoring, and professional capacity building need to complimented with commitments to deliberative governance, participatory management, and social learning Everard et al 2009;Alston andWhittenbury 2011, Wallis andIson 2011).…”

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Climate change and water policy in Australia's irrigation areas: a lost opportunity for a partnership model of governance

Cited by 33 publications

References 15 publications

Global climate change and global groundwater law: their independent and pluralistic evolution and potential challenges

Global climate change and global groundwater law: their independent and pluralistic evolution and potential challenges

Australia's landscapes in a changing climate—caution, hope, inspiration, and transformation

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