Urban water governance in times of multiple stressors: an editorial

Olsson, Lennart; Head, Brian

doi:10.5751/es-07300-200127

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“…The problem of rivers particularly in the context of governance and management is one of the preeminent problems in the contemporary era (Olsson and Head 2015). The causes of urban river resource crisis basically emerge from different factors.…”

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“…Particularly, urban river problems arise, in addition to pollution, illegal dumping of wastes, scarcity, and others, mainly from another context: weak cross-sectoral collaboration in the governance of rivers. Though urban rivers are providing various life-supporting services, urbanization, pollution, and uncontrolled waste dumping have impacted on rivers, and thus a collaborative framework that pools resources and legitimacy from different sectors has to be practiced (Olsson and Head 2015).…”

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“…Summarizing seven kinds of literature on urban river governance, Olsson and Head (2015) explained that the problem of rivers in cities needs to take environmental, legal, and social concerns into account; and in addressing this river problem, collaborative governance approaches are needed. Though cross-sectoral collaborative governance has emerged as a mechanism to deal with river problems, little is known about how such processes of collaboration in decision making, mutual learning, and implementation are going on (Holt et al 2012).…”

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Collaborative governance: assessing the problem of weak cross-sectoral collaborations for the governance of Addis Ababa Rivers

Woldesenbet

2018

Appl Water Sci

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Even though collaborative governance has become an important model to address river problems, the practice of collaboration among different sectors to govern river problems is weak in Addis Ababa city. Therefore, this study was intended to investigate the problem of weak cross-sectoral collaboration for the governance of river problems in Addis Ababa City. Employing qualitative research approach, the study relied on both primary and secondary data sources. Accordingly, interview and observation were conducted to gather relevant data. Secondary data were collected from different quarterly reports, river assessments and researches. The study found out that cross-sectoral collaboration is characterized by the lack of involvement of various non-governmental sectors, the problem of legitimacy, and the representation of sectors by individuals who have no expertise or experience on river issues. On the other hand, the challenges are the exclusion of river from the agendas of each sector, lack of commitment of authorities to share information and resources, and the absence of sectors in the implementation of river plans in different river sites in terms of giving trainings, supervising, and evaluating river sites. Establishing committee at all levels, including river in the annual plans of each sector, and appointing river experts in different sectors are identified as important mechanisms of dealing with collaboration problems. These problems of weak cross-sectoral collaborative governance of rivers had resulted in the deteriorating quality of rivers, environmental hazards to the vegetation of agricultural crops, and health and related impacts on biotic elements of the ecosystem.

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Collaborative governance: assessing the problem of weak cross-sectoral collaborations for the governance of Addis Ababa Rivers

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2018

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“…While the existing documentation identifies some of the positive steps that have resulted in effective practices from organizational, cost-recovery and sustainability perspectives (see Abbott et al 2012;Brown et al 2009;Byrnes 2013), translation of the Australian reforms to other contexts is complicated by factors such as complex hydrological systems and climate change risks that can undermine well-intended administrative reforms, emphasizing the need to ensure that reform agendas can allow the emergence of more effective and resilient practices tailored to suit separate and quite distinct jurisdictions (see Muller 2007;O'Leary 2016;Olsson and Head 2015;World Bank 2014.…”

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Australian Urban Water Reform Story

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Groom³

2017

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“…Academic research on the water environment governance from different perspectives has been emerging in an endless stream [7]. At present, the research mainly includes the vulnerability of water resources [8], evaluation of water quality [9], and methods of urban water governance [10]. The construction of evaluation indexes has gradually changed from the traditional viewpoint of 'water ecological' to the more comprehensive evaluation of ecology, society and economics [11,12].…”

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Performance Evaluation of Regional Water Environment Integrated Governance: Case Study from Henan Province, China

Tang

Dong

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The performance of the regional water environment integrated governance is affected by many factors. This study took place in Henan Province, China, as the research area, and constructed an index system through the comprehensive consideration of three target layers based on the Ecological-Social-Economic (ESE) framework. Due to advantages such as strong objectivity and operability, the improved entropy-weight technique for the order of preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS) model can greatly overcome subjective human interference and render the evaluation results more reliable. Therefore, it was introduced to evaluate the water environment integrated governance in Henan from 2007 to 2016. By applying the obstacle degree model, the obstacle factors were then diagnosed. The results of this study show that the overall performance of the integrated governance was generally improved in Henan from 2007 to 2016. Performance levels of the three target layers exhibited different trends, of which the social and economic benefits presented a linear increase year by year, but the ecological benefits presented a fluctuating downward trend. The obstacle on the Henan water environment integrated governance mainly comes from the ecological and economic benefits index. Therefore, a series of countermeasures have been proposed as a means of improving the governance performance in Henan.the new era. To promote the construction of ecological civilization, the governance of environmental pollution must be accelerated as soon as possible. In this study, research into the issue of water environment integrated governance has gradually become a focal point. The formulation of a scientific and reasonable mechanism to evaluate the performance of water environment integrated governance is currently a significant issue in both the theory and practice of water environment improvement.The shortage and serious pollution of water resources are severe obstacles to meeting the demand for clean water [5,6]. Academic research on the water environment governance from different perspectives has been emerging in an endless stream [7]. At present, the research mainly includes the vulnerability of water resources [8], evaluation of water quality [9], and methods of urban water governance [10]. The construction of evaluation indexes has gradually changed from the traditional viewpoint of 'water ecological' to the more comprehensive evaluation of ecology, society and economics [11,12]. For example, Fekete and Stakhiv studied the establishment of such indicators for a performance evaluation index system, and outlined a conceptual framework for indicators suitable to guiding both the water management planning as well as implementation evaluation [13]. On the basis of the ILBM (Lake Basin Management Initiative), Chidammodzi and Muhandiki built an indicator system from two aspects, namely the water resource subsystems and socioeconomic subsystems for the evaluation of water environment governance in the Lake Malawi Basin [14].The existing rese...

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Urban water governance in times of multiple stressors: an editorial

Cited by 25 publications

References 20 publications

Collaborative governance: assessing the problem of weak cross-sectoral collaborations for the governance of Addis Ababa Rivers

Collaborative governance: assessing the problem of weak cross-sectoral collaborations for the governance of Addis Ababa Rivers

Australian Urban Water Reform Story

Performance Evaluation of Regional Water Environment Integrated Governance: Case Study from Henan Province, China

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