The Multi-governance Of Water
Subtitle: Four Case Studies (Suny Series in Global Politics)
Contributors: Matthias Finger (Editor); Ludivine Tamiotti (Editor); Jeremy Allouche (Editor)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: November 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780791466056
Subjects: Geopolitics; Management of land & natural resources; Water-supply; Politics/International Relations; International - Economics; Case studies; Real Estate - General; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Management; International Relations - General; Industries - General; Water Supply; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Water resources development; Economic aspects; International cooperation
First sentence: Governance-as opposed to government-defines the phenomenon of societal problems (in our case water) appearing to be too interlinked, too complex, but also too overwhelming for any single nation-state to address them alone.
Description: "As the governance of transboundary rivers become a subject of growing importance due to the increasing pressure on freshwater resources, this timely collection examines water scarcity and efforts to better manage rivers and river basins. Most specialists agree that states face many institutional inadequacies when dealing with shared resources and that new governance mechanisms are needed to improve water management. Using case studies of the Aral Sea basin and the Danube, Euphrates, and Mekong river basins, the contributors develop a new approach to water governance: the concept of multi-governance, an effort to collectively solve public problems by involving a series of relevant actors from the local to the global level, such as institutions, states, civil society, and business."--BOOK JACKET.