Future Water Governance: Problems and Perspectives

Biswas, Asit K.; Tortajada, Cecilia

doi:10.1080/07900627.2010.488853

Cited by 133 publications

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“…We argue that for research on water governance to be useful, it should diagnose and tackle incentive problems beyond statements of general principles. Biswas and Tortajada (2010) argue that the term water governance has replaced the terms 'sustainable water management' and 'integrated water resources management' (IWRM) which have been the main water paradigms from the 1980s to 2000. Tropp (2007), on the other hand refers to water governance in terms of the "evolution of formal and informal networks, partnerships, jointdecision making processes including dialogue and negotiated outcomes as mechanisms for steering water governance."…”

Section: Water Governance Literaturementioning

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Water Governance 2.0: A Review and Second Generation Research Agenda

Araral

Wang

2013

Water Resour Manage

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Water scholars and practitioners generally agree that improving water governance is the key to addressing water insecurity in developing countries. We review the literature on water governance and argue for a second-generation research agenda, which pays more attention to the study of incentive structures, is multi and inter-disciplinary in orientation and with clear policy implications. We then illustrate how theories drawn from public economics, new institutional economics, political economy and public administration can help diagnose the challenges of integrated water resources management, improving efficiency of water utilities, privatization of utilities and public-private partnerships, water pricing reforms, virtual waters/water trading, among others. We conclude that these tools can help advance the second-generation research agenda on water governance.

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Section: Water Governance Literaturementioning

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Water Governance 2.0: A Review and Second Generation Research Agenda

Araral

Wang

2013

Water Resour Manage

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“…It is better implemented via a governance network, in which policy actors engage in cooperative relationships and a joint decision process [24]. Effective and integrative management of water resources is believed to be an important approach to achieving effective water governance [16]. Integrated water resource management (IWRM) requires all related influential factors and stakeholders to optimize economic and social welfare as well as the sustainability of ecosystems [25].…”

Section: Water Governance Network Governance and Ecology Of Gamesmentioning

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Collaborative Environmental Governance, Inter-Agency Cooperation and Local Water Sustainability in China

Huang

Chen

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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Administrative fragmentation among government agencies has posed a significant challenge to environmental governance. However, few studies have theoretically examined and empirically measured how local governments in China address this with collaborative approaches. Informed by the ecology of games framework (EGF), this paper examined the status of inter-agency water governance in Dongguan City: the pilot city of aquatic ecologically friendly city of China. The research question we seek to address is: What are the main characteristics of the water governance network in local China? With empirical data collected via survey questionnaires and semi-structured in-depth interviews following the EGF, we find that local agencies have realized the need for cooperation in water resource management. However, they were not substantially familiar with each other in the local policy network, failing to reach their full potential in collaboration. Social network analysis was used to analyze the collaborative network. We found that the network has a weak to moderate density, allowing for collective action problems and leading to insufficient cooperative governance. The network has presented central actors with strong bridging capital to control information and resource flows. We also find strong bonding capital among some policy actors as shown in high reciprocity, clustering coefficient and transitivity. To strengthen the effectiveness of local water governance, efforts should be made to establish a functional department and extend the boundary of collaborative network.

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“…Overall, the data and approach of article is the emergence of a discussion on water governance by a diverse international collaboration of academics. This approach complements recent research that uses multiple case studies to help illuminate emerging trends and issues in global water governance and climate change [12,44,45,52,53], and contributes to the debates surrounding 'tailored frameworks' on water governance as they help in identifying transformative adaptation. In order to achieve this, the following section of the paper details the assumptions and analytical framework that we have drawn upon to analyse the nine CADWAGO case studies.…”

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Global Water Governance and Climate Change: Identifying Innovative Arrangements for Adaptive Transformation

Zurita

Thomsen

Holbrook

et al. 2018

Water

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A convoluted network of different water governance systems exists around the world. Collectively, these systems provide insight into how to build sustainable regimes of water use and management. We argue that the challenge is not to make the system less convoluted, but rather to support positive and promising trends in governance, creating a vision for future environmental outcomes. In this paper, we analyse nine water case studies from around the world to help identify potential 'innovative arrangements' for addressing existing dilemmas. We argue that such arrangements can be used as a catalyst for crafting new global water governance futures. The nine case studies were selected for their diversity in terms of location, scale and water dilemma, and through an examination of their contexts, structures and processes we identify key themes to consider in the milieu of adaptive transformation. These themes include the importance of acknowledging socio-ecological entanglements, understanding the political dimensions of environmental dilemmas, the recognition of different constructions of the dillema, and the importance of democratized processes.

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Future Water Governance: Problems and Perspectives

Cited by 133 publications

References 7 publications

Water Governance 2.0: A Review and Second Generation Research Agenda

Water Governance 2.0: A Review and Second Generation Research Agenda

Collaborative Environmental Governance, Inter-Agency Cooperation and Local Water Sustainability in China

Global Water Governance and Climate Change: Identifying Innovative Arrangements for Adaptive Transformation

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