Water governance in OECD countries
Subtitle: a multi-level approach
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Secretary-General; OECD iLibrary
Series: OECD studies on water
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9789264119277; 9789264119284
Subjects: Water-supply; Management; Government policy
Other titles: Water governance in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries
Notes: "This work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD"--T.p. verso.

"Corrigenda to OECD publications may be found online at: www.oecd.org/publishing/corrigenda"--T.p. verso.

"This report was written and co-ordinated by Aziza Akhmouch"--Acknowledgements.

OECD-code: 42 2011 14 1 P.

ISSN for online series: 2224-5081.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Text in English and includes an executive summary, also in English, at beginning of book.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Public governance and water policies : an innovative multi-level approach; title: Mapping institutional roles and responsibilities; title: Challenges to co-ordinating water policies across levels of government; title: Multi-level co-ordination of water policies; title: Final considerations for water policy governance : preliminary guidelines; title: Country profiles : Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Belgium (Wallonia), Canada, Chile, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom (England and Wales), United States (Colorado).