Water policy entrepreneurs : a research companion to water transitions around the globe
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Water policy entrepreneurs : a research companion to water transitions around the globe
E. Elgar, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This major volume focuses on the role of policy entrepreneurs in revolutionizing water management worldwide. Adopting an international comparative perspective, the authors explore the changes taking place in water policy across fifteen countries, at both the global level and within the European Union. Their analysis highlights the importance of groups and individuals in stimulating progress and reveals the crucial part played by policy entrepreneurs.
Successful entrepreneurs use various strategies to initiate and implement change, including the framing and reframing of issues, the assembly of coalitions, venue shopping and the exploitation of windows of opportunity. In showcasing the role of entrepreneurs in achieving transitions and explaining their approach, this groundbreaking book presents an optimistic message for those who desire improvements in the way water is managed.
This book will not only make a unique contribution to the current literature on transition management, but will also prove an invaluable tool for those keen to influence water policy management at the regional, national and international level. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of water resources and environmental management and governance, as well as practitioners in the fields of water and climate policy.
Table of Contents
Contents:
Preface
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Transitions in Water Management: Positioning this Book
Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink
2. Understanding and Managing Water Policy Transitions: A Policy Science Perspective
Sander Meijerink and Dave Huitema
3. Driving Forces in Global Freshwater Governance
Joyeeta Gupta
PART II: THE AMERICAS
4. Transitions: Transcending Multiple Ways of Knowing Water Resources in the United States
Helen Ingram and Raul Lejano
5. Political and Economic Apertures and the Shifting State-Citizen Relationship: Reforming Mexico's National Water Policy
Margaret Wilder
PART III: AUSTRALASIA
6. Implementing Integrated River Basin Management in China
Dorri te Boekhorst, Toine Smits, Yu Xiubo, Li Lifeng, Lei Gang and Zhang Chen
7. Where Does Policy Change Come From? And Where Does it End Up? Establishing Water User Associations in Large-Scale Canal Irrigation Systems in India
Vishal Narain
8. Averted Crises, Contested Transitions: Water Management in the Upper Ping River Basin, Northern Thailand
Louis Lebel, Po Garden, Nutthawat Subsin and Sakkarin Na Nan
9. Transitions in Indonesian Water Policy: Policy Windows through Crisis, Response through Implementation
Anjali Bhat and Peter P. Mollinga
10. The Contribution of Actors to Achieving Sustainability in Australia through Water Policy Transitions
Sara Hughes and Jennifer McKay
PART IV: AFRICA
11. South African Water and Mining Policy: A Study of Strategies for Transition Management
Anthony Richard Turton
12. Past, Present and Future Landscapes of Water Policy in Tanzania
Jaqui Goldin and Deusdedit Kibassa
PART V: EUROPE
13. European Union Water Policy: To Transition or Not to Transition? Coalitions as Key
Lena Partzsch
14. The Introduction of Floodplain Rehabilitation and Rural Development into the Water Policy for the Tisza River in Hungary
Saskia E. Werners, Zsuzsanna Flachner and Piotr Matczak
15. Spanish Water Management in Transition: Transition Management Watered Down?
Nuria Font and Joan Subirats
16. Neoliberal Transitions in Hydropower and Irrigation Water Management in Turkey: Main Actors and Opposition Groups
Aysegul Kibaroglu, Argun Baskan and Sezin Alp
17. Transitions to Adaptive Approaches to Water Management and Governance in Sweden
Per Olsson and Victor Galaz
18. Germany: Transitions in Flood Management in the Rhine Basin
Gert Becker
19. Policy Dynamics in Dutch Water Management: Analysing the Contribution of Policy Entrepreneurs to Policy Change
Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink
PART VI: CONCLUSIONS
20. Water Transitions, Policy Entrepreneurs and Change Strategies: Lessons Learned
Sander Meijerink and Dave Huitema
Index
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