Mutual Learning and Policy Transfer in Integrated Water Resources Management: A Research Agenda

Fritsch, Oliver; Benson, David

doi:10.3390/w12010072

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“…The design of such a policy, which takes into consideration the interactions between actors, starts with the framing of the issue related to the interaction between actors and its programming in the political agenda. Consequently, the conflicting interests of the different actors must be considered in the implementation of the policy related to water management (Del Vecchio, 2018;Fritsch and Benson, 2019;Metz and Glaus, 2019). In addition, the prospective analysis of possible future scenarios and stakeholder choices should absolutely integrate the power relationships, alliances and conflicts between the different stakeholders as well as the most mobilizing objectives that emerged from this study.…”

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“…In this context, it appeared useful, even necessary, for a key public sector such as the water sector to identify the main issues and major actors related to water management, understand their strategies and identify the main synergies and potential conflicts. This questioning of the interactions among actors, will allow decision makers and political actors to understand the dynamics of the system that integrate all actors and to frame their future intervention in the implementation of water-related public policies (Brown et al, 2020;Fritsch and Benson, 2019;Ingold and Tosun, 2020;Pezij et al, 2019). The objective of this paper is to conduct the analysis of stakeholder's interaction in water management system at the R'Dom sub-basin.…”

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Stakeholders’ interactions in Water Management System: Insights from a MACTOR analysis in the R’Dom Sub-basin, Morocco

Ben-Daoud¹,

Mahrad²,

Moroșanu³

et al. 2021

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This article aims to understand the typologies of stakeholders, their role in the water resources management system in the R’Dom Sub-basin(Morocco), and to identify the current and desired interactions among stakeholders. For this purpose, The MACTOR participatory approach was adopted to involve all key water stakeholders and to analyze their interactions. The action system was characterized by the analysis of related issues and relevant actors on the ground. Thus, ten actors and twelve objectives were identified and assessed in this study. The analysis of stakeholder games allowed to identify the typologies of stakeholders according to their strategic objectives and to evaluate their power, influence and dependence, as well as their convergence in a global water management system. The results show a significant level of convergence among stakeholders despite the existence of certain stakeholders who may be considered autonomous given their low involvement in integrated water management. Furthermore, there was a limited involvement of stakeholders in certain strategic objectives such as capacity building, technical means, and awareness-raising actions. The paper shows the need to generate greater collaborative efforts among water stakeholders involved in the implementation of integrated water resources management in the R'Dom sub-basin.

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Stakeholders’ interactions in Water Management System: Insights from a MACTOR analysis in the R’Dom Sub-basin, Morocco

Ben-Daoud¹,

Mahrad²,

Moroșanu³

et al. 2021

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“…However, when assessing the state of rivers and the quality of their waters, many researchers use an integrated approach that takes into account the overall economic situation in the watershed area [68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76]; the regional authorities which are responsible for individual control units objectively cannot take into account the national context for large (transboundary) rivers. The first principle of "Integrated Water Resources Management" (IWRM) [77][78][79] assumes that the river basin should be used as a water resources management unit. Therefore, there are severe difficulties in coordinating available water resources with demands within one hydrographic basin, since each water balance component is related to the social situation and economic and political conditions [10].…”

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Basin-Scale Approach to Integration of Agro- and Hydroecological Monitoring for Sustainable Environmental Management: A Case Study of Belgorod Oblast, European Russia

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The quantitative and qualitative depletion of water resources (both surface and groundwater) is closely related to the need to protect soils against degradation, rationalization of land use, and regulation of surface water runoff within the watershed area. Belgorod Oblast (27,100 km2), one of the administrative regions of European Russia, was chosen as the study area. It is characterized by a high activity of soil erosion (the share of eroded soils is about 48% of the total area of arable land). The development phase of the River Basin Environmental Management Projects (217 river basins from the fourth to seventh order) allowed for the proceeding of the development of an integrated monitoring system for river systems and river basin systems. The methods used to establish a geoecological network for regional monitoring include the selection and application of GIS techniques to quantify the main indicators of ecological state and predisposition of river basins to soil erosion (the share of cropland and forestland, the share of the south-oriented slopes, soil erodibility, Slope Length and Steepness (LS) factor, erosion index of precipitation, and the river network density) and the method of a hierarchical classification of cluster analysis for the grouping of river basins. An approach considering the typology of river basins is also used to expand the regional network of hydrological gauging stations to rationalize the national hydrological monitoring network. By establishing 16 additional gauging stations on rivers from the fourth to seventh order, this approach allows for an increase in the area of hydro-agroecological monitoring by 1.26 times (i.e., up to 77.5% of the total area of Belgorod Oblast). Some integrated indicators of agroecological (on the watershed surface) and hydroecological (in river water flow) monitoring are proposed to improve basin environmental management projects. Six-year monitoring showed the effectiveness of water quality control measures on an example of a decrease in the concentrations of five major pollutants in river waters.

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“…Increasingly, participatory, bottom-up models of resource management have been touted as holding much promise in tackling the multiple challenges facing urban water governance [10]. Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been promoted since the late 1990s as a paradigm that could potentially improve how water resources are governed across jurisdictions [11][12][13]. IWRM implementation requires that governments successfully engage multiple stakeholders in a round-table fashion.…”

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

Pacheco-Vega

2020

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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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Mutual Learning and Policy Transfer in Integrated Water Resources Management: A Research Agenda

Cited by 16 publications

References 66 publications

Stakeholders’ interactions in Water Management System: Insights from a MACTOR analysis in the R’Dom Sub-basin, Morocco

Stakeholders’ interactions in Water Management System: Insights from a MACTOR analysis in the R’Dom Sub-basin, Morocco

Basin-Scale Approach to Integration of Agro- and Hydroecological Monitoring for Sustainable Environmental Management: A Case Study of Belgorod Oblast, European Russia

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

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