A Critical Approach to International Water Management Trends: Policy and Practice

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Christian Bréthaut, Rémi Schweizer
Springer, 25.09.2017 - 305 Seiten

This edited volume provides a critical discussion of particular trends that are widely recognised to influence water management by comparing them with what is actually happening in the field. Among others, these trends include water security, adaptive or integrative management, and the water-energy-food nexus, which are often presented as essential means to reaching more sustainable and resilient water use. However, the extent to which these trends have managed to structure concrete practices in water management remains uncertain.

Informed by empirically grounded research, each chapter of this work engages with a particular approach, concept or theory. Together, they provide a nuanced picture of trends in water management that require universal remedies and global norms.

 

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Taking Up Practical and Intellectual Challenges Posed by International Water Management Trends Some Introductory Remarks
1
Avoiding the Commons Trap An Exploration of Local Community Governance of Water in Valais Switzerland
23
Integrated Water Resources Management as a Compromise Renewing the Water Act in the Canton of Fribourg Switzerland
45
Transboundary Water Management From Geopolitics to a Nonstate Analytical Perspective The Case of the Rhône River
71
From Multilevel Governance to Scalar Politics Water Community Networks Challenging NeoExtractivist Governmental Institutions in Ecuador
96
Exploring the Democratic Legitimacy of Privatization in the Water Sector Two Cases in Switzerland
123
Governing Water with MarketBased Instruments Preferences and Skepticism in Switzerland
147
Climate Change Adaptation as a New Global Norm in the Water Sector? Between Symbolism and Dilution
177
Water Security as a Normative Goal or as a Structural Principle for Water Governance
201
Politicizing the WaterEnergy Nexus Hydropower and Instream Values in Two Swiss Cantons Water Strategies
232
From the Promises of International Water Management Trends to the Reality of Policies and Practices Some Conclusive Thoughts
269
Index
294
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actors adaptive governance adaptive management analysis analyze assessment authors Bakker Berne bisses Bréthaut cantonal challenges Chap Climate Change CLOCSAS complex concept concession contract consortages context coordination decision-making defined democratic legitimacy dimensions Ecology and Society economic ecosystem Ecuador Edward Elgar emerging energy Environment European evolution federal focuses global norms hydropower impacts implementation institutional instrument preferences Integrated Water Resources international water management issues IWRM Knoepfel Lieberherr MBIs ment multi-level municipalities natural Nexus approach nirvana Pahl-Wostl perspective policy instruments pollution power relations regional regulation Rhône Rhône River risk river basin role scalar politics scale Schweizer Science sectors social specific structure sustainable Swiss water Switzerland tion transboundary water management UN-Water University of Geneva Valais Varone water community organizations water crisis water governance water management trends water policy water protection water regime Water Resources Management water security water strategy water supply watershed Zurich

Autoren-Profil (2017)

Christian Bréthaut is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He leads the Education and Knowledge component of the Geneva Water Hub and co-leads the UNESCO Chair on Hydropolitics from the University of Geneva. Rémi Schweizer is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Lausanne and ETH Zürich. His research focuses on environmental and food governance, with a particular interest on power relations, policy implementation and innovation, and local community governance.

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TitelA Critical Approach to International Water Management Trends: Policy and Practice
Palgrave Studies in Water Governance: Policy and Practice
HerausgeberChristian Bréthaut, Rémi Schweizer
VerlagSpringer, 2017
ISBN1137600861, 9781137600868
Länge305 Seiten
  
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