Journal article
Global Water Governance and Climate Change: Identifying Innovative Arrangements for Adaptive Transformation
Water, Vol.10(1), pp.1-16
02/01/2018
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Abstract
A convoluted network of different water governance systems exists around the world. Collectively, these systems provide insight into how to build sustainable regimes of water use and management. We argue that the challenge is not to make the system less convoluted, but rather to support positive and promising trends in governance, creating a vision for future environmental outcomes. In this paper, we analyse nine water case studies from around the world to help identify potential innovative arrangements' for addressing existing dilemmas. We argue that such arrangements can be used as a catalyst for crafting new global water governance futures. The nine case studies were selected for their diversity in terms of location, scale and water dilemma, and through an examination of their contexts, structures and processes we identify key themes to consider in the milieu of adaptive transformation. These themes include the importance of acknowledging socio-ecological entanglements, understanding the political dimensions of environmental dilemmas, the recognition of different constructions of the dillema, and the importance of democratized processes.
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- Title
- Global Water Governance and Climate Change: Identifying Innovative Arrangements for Adaptive Transformation
- Creators
- Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita - The University of SydneyDana C. Thomsen - University of the Sunshine CoastNeil J. Holbrook - University of TasmaniaTimothy F. Smith - University of the Sunshine CoastAnna Lyth - University of the Sunshine CoastPaul G. Munro - UNSW SydneyAnnemarieke de Bruin - University of YorkGiovanna Seddaiu - University of SassariPier Paolo Roggero - University of SassariJulia Baird - Brock UniversityRyan Plummer - University of the Sunshine CoastRyan Bullock - University of WinnipegKevin Collins - The Open UniversityNeil Powell - University of the Sunshine Coast
- Publication Details
- Water, Vol.10(1), pp.1-16
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Number of pages
- 16
- Grant note
- The research for this paper is a part of the “CADWAGO: Climate change adaptation and water governance—reconciling food security, renewable energy and the provision of multiple ecosystem services” project funded as part of the “Europe and Global Challenges programme” by Compagnia di San Paolo, VolkswagenStiftung and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
- Identifiers
- 991013389816302368
- Copyright
- © 2018 by the authors.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education; Office of Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article