Towards integrated governance for water, health and social–ecological systems: The watershed governance prism

Parkes, Margot W.; Morrison, Karen E.; Bunch, Martin J.; Hällström, Lars; Neudoerffer, R. Cynthia; Venema, Henry David; Waltner-Toews, David

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.06.001

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“…Although national governments provide support such as policy frameworks, the subnational scale plays a fundamental role in ensuring adaptation actions are tailored to local circumstances (Snover et al 2007, UNDP 2007. Similarly, Galarraga et al (2009) argued that subnational organizations can make significant contributions because their greater awareness of local conditions combined with greater flexibility allow them to take decisive, targeted actions in response to climate change (see also Parkes et al 2010).…”

Section: Health and Climate Changementioning

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Coordination and health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Gilfillan¹,

Nguyen²,

Pham³

2017

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ABSTRACT. This research examines the impact of three coordination dimensions on health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: cross-scale, cross-sectoral, and cross-boundary. While tasks are divided up between government ministries and departments in Vietnam, there is little collaboration on issues that span mandates. Similarly, while water flows in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta take resource management and health concerns across provincial boundaries, formal mechanisms for interprovincial collaboration are lacking. While decentralization efforts have sought to devolve authority and decision making to lower levels, there is continued state-centered top-down policy making, and this limits collaborative coordination across scales. All three of these issues inhibit health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, and though these coordination issues are recognized by the Vietnamese government, to date there has been little success in addressing them. The authors hope to stimulate further debate and discussion of coordination problems, and conclude that despite some significant challenges, the South West Steering Committee could play a facilitating role coordinating climate change responses in health and other sectors across the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. As an analysis of governance, this research is applicable to other areas and sectors in Vietnam, as well as to other parts of South East Asia.

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Section: Health and Climate Changementioning

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Coordination and health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Gilfillan¹,

Nguyen²,

Pham³

2017

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“…agriculture and food security, water resources and water supply, air quality). Therefore, there is need for a health sector environment accommodating policies that leverage the dynamic interplay among ecosystem determinants driven mostly by ecosystem services, and between them and health outcomes (Butler and Friel, 2006;Parkes et al, 2010). Ecohealth concept and practice present opportunities to minimize the outcomes of ecosystems shock or stress with potentially increasing impacts of climate change acting adversely against resilience in the public health sector (e.g., see Fig.…”

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Sensitivity of health sector indicators' response to climate change in Ghana

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Dzodzomenyo

Ogunseitan

2017

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Although some case studies document the advantages of participatory and deliberative governance processes (e.g., Lebel et al 2006), others demonstrate the many ways in which participation instead often falls short of realizing stated social and environmental objectives (e.g., O'Reilly and Dhanju 2012). Participatory approaches have performed particularly poorly with respect to community empowerment goals; supportive evidence is both thin (Parkes et al 2010) and disputed by documentation across a range of contexts suggesting that communities may be further marginalized by participationreliant governance processes (e.g., Agarwal 2001). Although the participatory governance literature has paid increasing attention to issues of social power (Cooke and Kothari 2001, Hickey and Mohan 2004, Nadasdy 2005, the adaptive comanagement literature has focused relatively less on these questions, as summarized previously (for promising discussions, see Nadasdy 2003, Kofinas 2005, Spaeder 2005, Armitage 2008, Pahl-Wostl 2009, Bakker and Morinville 2013.…”

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Participation, politics, and panaceas: exploring the possibilities and limits of participatory urban water governance in Accra, Ghana

Morinville¹,

Harris²

2014

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ABSTRACT. Water governance debates have increasingly recognized the importance of adaptive governance for short-and long-term sustainability, especially with respect to increasing climate unpredictability and growing urbanization. A parallel focus on enhancing community participation pervades international development recommendations and policy literature. Indeed, there are often implicit and explicit connections made between the participatory character of water governance institutions and their adaptive capacity. The social-ecological systems literature, however, has also urged caution with respect to embracing panaceas, with increasing calls to be attentive to the limitations of proposed "solutions." We discuss the parallels between the adaptive governance, comanagement, and participatory resource governance literatures and analyze efforts to encourage such participation in urban water governance through Local Water Boards in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on interview data, participant observations, and a survey of 243 individuals, we explored what participatory spaces have been opened or foreclosed as well as the possibilities for adaptive urban water governance in Accra. Applying insights from recent debates about panaceas, we argue that discerning the potential and limits for sustainable resource governance and associated development goals requires that participatory mechanisms be subjected to systematic and contextual analysis.

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Towards integrated governance for water, health and social–ecological systems: The watershed governance prism

Cited by 156 publications

References 78 publications

Coordination and health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Coordination and health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Sensitivity of health sector indicators' response to climate change in Ghana

Participation, politics, and panaceas: exploring the possibilities and limits of participatory urban water governance in Accra, Ghana

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