The politics of river basin organisations
Subtitle: coalitions, institutional design choices and consequences
By: edited by Dave Huitema, Sander Meijerink
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cheltenham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9781782549215
Subjects: Watershed management; Aspectes polítics; Administració; Political aspects; Conques hidrogràfiques
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of river basin organisations : institutional design choices, coalitions and consequences  -- Dave Huitema, -- Sander Meijerink; title: Global water governance and river basin organisations  -- Frank Jaspers, -- Joyeeta Gupta; title: Cooperative transboundary water governance in Canada's Mackenzie River Basin : status and prospects  -- Rob de Loë, -- Michelle Morris; title: Designing an agency to manage a wicked water problem : the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board  -- Denise Lach, -- Dan Calvert; title: Partnering for success in England : the Westcountry Rivers Trust  -- Hadrian Cook, -- David Benson, -- Alex Inman; title: State-founded water boards in industrialised Western Germany  -- Frank Hüesker, -- Christoph Bernhardt; title: Emergence, performance and transformation of Portuguese water institutions in the age of river basin organisations  -- Andreas Thiel, -- António Guerreiro de Brito; title: The politics of establishing catchment management agencies in South Africa : the case of the Breede-Overberg Catchment Management Agency  -- Richard Meissner, -- Nikki Funke; title: Introducing river basin management in a transitional context : a case study about Ukraine  -- Nina Hagemann, -- Marco Leidel; title: River basin organisations in Northern Afghanistan : the holy trinity of contemporary water management in practice  -- Jeroen Warner, -- Vincent Thomas; title: Evolving river basin management in Mongolia?  -- Ines Dombrowsky, -- Annabelle Houdret, -- Lena Horlemann; title: Interplay between new basin organisations, pre-existing institutions and emerging environmental networks in the Mae Kuang watershed, northern Thailand  -- Santita Ganjanapan, -- Louis Lebel; title: The evolution of river basin management in the Murray-Darling Basin  -- Andrew Ross, -- Daniel Connell; title: Institutional design, politics and performance of river basin organisations -- Sander Meijerink,-- Dave Huitema.