Governing water in federal river basins

Stefano, Lucía De; Garrick, Dustin

doi:10.1007/s10113-018-1383-x

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“…While this broad statement can be challenged across the board using a broad range of case studies, I focus primarily on the Mexican IWRM implementation case as it highlights the realities of public participation in a country with a highly complex institutional arrangement [112], organizational architectures that do not match political and biophysical-geospatial boundaries, and a set of actors with diffuse interests and responsibilities [38]. In theory, IWRM would lead to a more polycentric mode of governance by virtue of engaging stakeholders in river basin councils [113][114][115]. These roundtables are predicated on the value of including multiple users and representatives from academia, civil society, and all three levels of government: federal, state-level, and municipal.…”

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Governing Urban Water Conflict through Watershed Councils—A Public Policy Analysis Approach and Critique

Pacheco-Vega

2020

Water

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Cities face substantial water governance challenges, even more so when their activities are water-intensive, as global tourism is. As the lower-most level of government, municipalities face important challenges when dealing with water stress. Designing robust urban water policy thus may require us to challenge currently popular modes of governance by river basin councils, as predicated by the integrated water resources management (IWRM) paradigm. In this paper, I conduct a public policy analysis of a case study of intra-urban water conflict in the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende (SMA), an extremely popular tourist destination with substantive water scarcity challenges. I draw insights from an application of the Institutional Grammar Tool, IGT (as proposed by Ostrom and Crawford) on a series of textual datasets derived from ethnographic, qualitative longitudinal field research, document analysis, and elite interviews with stakeholders to explain the reasons underlying community concerns about urban water supply which have derived in conflict in San Miguel de Allende and increasingly manifested over the past few years (2017–2020). My analysis suggests that to tackle growing intra-urban antagonism derived from increasing water insecurity in San Miguel de Allende, a more localized, micro-watershed approach might be more fruitful than a traditional river basin council strategy.

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Section: Results and Discussion: San Miguel De Allende As A Site Of M...mentioning

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Governing Urban Water Conflict through Watershed Councils—A Public Policy Analysis Approach and Critique

Pacheco-Vega

2020

Water

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“…A holistic approach demands, however, another scale. Many holistic interdependencies of SDGs 6 and 7 reside at regional levels because they are of physical/environmental (Liu, 2015;Abbott et al, 2019) or technical/political (Platzer et al, 2016;De Stefano and Garrick, 2018;Chazournes, 2009) natures. E.g.…”

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“…Liu (2015) and Abbott et al (2019) emphasize the differences in regional basin conditions (that might be modified by human interference), that differ from semi-arid to tropical conditions and influence wide stretches of neither local, nor national nor global land. On the other hand, technical projects (Platzer et al, 2016) and (federal) political decisions (De Stefano and Garrick, 2018;Chazournes, 2009) have wide consequences for sub-national, non-local patches of nations. The local character of the W4EF is not capable of assessing those conditions.…”

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A Holistic and Globally Applicable Indication System for Regional Electric-Energy-Water Security

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Schomberg

Pahl‐Wostl

2021

Ecosyst Health Sustain

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The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were designed to lead the modern Anthropocene to a lifestyle that was demanded by the Brundtland commission. Their objective is a common good that does not exploit the planet's environment and is thus long-term. Though virtually separated, contemporary research shows that the seventeen SDGs are intertwined. This is also the case for water and energy (SDG 6 and 7). The present research offers the first holistic indicator set that is designed to demonstrate the synergies and trade-offs between electrical energy generation and necessary water supply. It is founded on the SDG principles, follows a mindset based on the security definition established by Grey and Sadoff and is designed around the various technical dependencies of electrical energy and water. The set endeavors to reflect the manifoldness by which electrical energy is dependent on water supply in a dynamic ecologic, economic and social environment. As electrical energy and water interactions are identified for a regional level, the set is designed to be applicable on any administrative or basin area with moderate data avail-

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“…These whole-basin approaches unite riparian states around the river drainage area as a unit of management, creating supra-national governance structures meant to enable cooperation and adjudication of thorny issues surrounding transboundary water supply, regulation, and management (Zawahri et al, 2011;Thomas, 2017). Recent case studies of hydropolitics and resource allocation in federal states present a clash between centralized or extranational cooperative governance and the autonomy and self-interest of subnational units as independent governing bodies (Garrick et al, 2013;Moore, 2017;De Stefano & Garrick, 2018). As such, despite post-border rhetoric, political borders remain distinct realities, given humanity's desire to control and delimit landscapes.…”

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Rivers as political borders: a new subnational geospatial dataset

Popelka

Smith

2020

Water Policy

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Rivers are commonly used to define political borders, but no global study has quantified the importance of rivers on territorial delimitation at subnational scales. This paper presents Global Subnational River-Borders (GSRB), a first comprehensive geospatial dataset of subnational, as well as national, political borders set by large rivers. GSRB incorporates three previous vector datasets (GAUL, GRWL + +, and WDBII) to map and quantify the use of large rivers as political borders at local, state, and national scales. GSRB conservatively finds that at least 58,588 km (23%) of the world's interior (non-coastal) national borders, 199,922 km (17%) of the world's interior state/province borders, and 459,459 km (12%) of the world's interior local-level political borders are set by large rivers. GSRB finds 222, 2,350, and 14,808 dyads sharing river-borders at these three administrative scales, respectively. While previous studies have emphasized transboundary rivers separating nations, GSRB highlights the abundance of river-borders at subnational scales, where numerous domestic stakeholders share jurisdiction in water resource management. These participants, identified with GSRB, ought not to be ignored when crafting water policy and instituting whole-basin management regimes. GSRB should prove useful for global, geospatial analyses of riparian stakeholders across administrative scales. The GSRB dataset (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3906566) can be found via the following link https://zenodo.org/record/3906567#.XvN-GGhKjIU.

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Governing water in federal river basins

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

Governing Urban Water Conflict through Watershed Councils—A Public Policy Analysis Approach and Critique

Governing Urban Water Conflict through Watershed Councils—A Public Policy Analysis Approach and Critique

A Holistic and Globally Applicable Indication System for Regional Electric-Energy-Water Security

Rivers as political borders: a new subnational geospatial dataset

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