Global water governance and Climate Change: Identifying innovative arrangements for adaptive transformation

Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita; Dana C Thomsen; Neil J Holbrook; Timothy F Smith; Anna Lyth; Paul G Munro; Annemarieke de Bruin; Giovanna Seddaiu; Pier Paolo Roggero; Julia Baird; Ryan Plummer; Ryan Bullock; Kevin Collins; Neil Powell

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Global water governance and Climate Change: Identifying innovative arrangements for adaptive transformation

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Global water governance and Climate Change: Identifying innovative arrangements for adaptive transformation

Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita, Dana C Thomsen, Neil J Holbrook, Timothy F Smith, Anna Lyth, Paul G Munro, Annemarieke de Bruin, Giovanna Seddaiu, Pier Paolo Roggero, Julia Baird, …

Water, Vol.10(1), 29

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/w10010029

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Abstract

adaptive transformation

global environmental governance

water governance

institutional analysis

innovative arrangements

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
Authors: Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita (Author) - University of Sydney
Dana C Thomsen (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Neil J Holbrook (Author) - University of Tasmania
Timothy F Smith (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Anna Lyth (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Paul G Munro (Author) - University of New South Wales
Annemarieke de Bruin (Author) - University of York, United Kingdom
Giovanna Seddaiu (Author) - University of Sassari, Italy
Pier Paolo Roggero (Author) - University of Sassari, Italy
Julia Baird (Author) - Brock University, Canada
Ryan Plummer (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Ryan Bullock (Author) - University of Winnipeg, Canada
Kevin Collins (Author) - Open University, United Kingdom
Neil Powell (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Publication details: Water, Vol.10(1), 29; 16
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date published: 2018
DOI: 10.3390/w10010029
ISSN: 2073-4441
Copyright note: Copyright © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450339302621
Output Type: Journal article