Water Governance in the Face of Global Change
Subtitle: From Understanding to Transformation
Publisher: Springer
Published: Sep 09, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9783319218540
Description: This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of multi-level water governance, developing a conceptual and analytical framework that captures the complexity of real water governance systems while also introducing different approaches to comparative analysis. Applications illustrate how the ostensibly conflicting goals of deriving general principles and of taking context-specific factors into account can be reconciled. Specific emphasis is given to governance reform, adaptive and transformative capacity and multi-level societal learning. The sustainable management of global water resources is one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the 21st century. Many problems and barriers to improvement can be attributed to failures in governance rather than the resource base itself. At the same time our understanding of complex water governance systems largely remains limited and fragmented. The book offers an invaluable resource for all researchers working on water governance topics and for practitioners dealing with water governance challenges alike.
Notes: Source title: Water Governance in the Face of Global Change: From Understanding to Transformation (Water Governance - Concepts, Methods, and Practice)