Improving water policy and governance
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Improving water policy and governance
Routledge, 2011
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Old forms of governance in both public and private sectors are becoming increasingly irrelevant because of rapidly changing conditions. Because of these changes, both governance processes and the scope of the institutions through which power is exercised throughout society may have to undergo a radical break with the past and prevailing models of governance. Water sector is an integral part of the global system. Consequently, its governance processes and the institutions responsible for its management must change as well in order to cope with the current challenges and potential future changes. Because of these current and future changes, water governance may have to change more during the next 20 years compared to the past 2000 years, if societal expectations are to be successfully met. All these changes will make water governance more complex than ever before witnessed in human history. Improving water governance will require good and objective analyses of case studies from different parts of the world as to what has worked, why and the enabling environments under which good governance has been possible.
The present volume analyses case studies of good water governance from different parts of the world, and for different water use sectors. It concludes with an analysis of the critical issues that should be considered for water governance and a priority research agenda for improving water governance in the future.
This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
Table of Contents
1. Future Water Governance: Problems and Perspectives 2. Water Governance in the Middle East and North Africa: An Unfinished Agenda 3. Water Supply of Phnom Penh: An Example of Good Governance 4. Service Quality and Performance Measurement: Evidence from the Indian Water Sector 5. Municipal Water Supply Management in Bangkok: Achievements and Lessons 6. Is Access to Water as Good as the Data Claim? Case Study of Yucatan 7. Challenges for Water Governance in Rural Water Supply: Lessons Learned from Tanzania 8. Governing to Grow Enough Food without Enough Water - Second Best Solutions Show the Way 9. Irrigation Modernization in Spain: Effects on Water Quantity and Quality - A Conceptual Approach 10. A Spatial Planning Perspective for Measures Concerning Flood Risk Management 11. Water Governance: Some Critical Issues 12. Water Governance: A Research Agenda
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