Approaching the Collaborative “Turn” in Water Governance: A Critical Reappraisal

Watson, Nigel; Loë, Rob C. de

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-85839-1_4

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“…Though largely uncoupled, the calls and tools for stakeholder involvement in basin management are similar to the calls for communicative planning (Watson and de Loe 2021 ). Practices have been advanced to this end in the planning field since the early 1990s (Healey 1992 ; Innes 1996 ).…”

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“…However, communicative planning has been critiqued as an approach that does not overcome power differentials (Allemdendiger and Tewdwr-Jones 2002 ) as its outcomes are largely a function of the identity of those involved in the process, who may not fully represent all the relevant stakeholders (Bicerstaff and Walker 2005 ). These critiques are relevant also for basin management practices, resulting in limited effects of stakeholders on basin management (Blackstock et al 2014 ; van der Heijden and ten Heuvelhof 2012 ; Watson and de Loe 2021 ).…”

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Identifying Core Issues for Basin Management: The Issue Generating Assessment (IGA) Methodology

Salame-Rubin,

Feitelson,

Laster

et al. 2024

Environmental Management

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Effective stakeholder engagement is essential for basin management, requiring structured approaches to foster collaboration and consensus. This paper applies the Issue Generating Assessment (IGA) method, which identifies core issues for stakeholder discussion, to basin management. Focusing on the Israeli part of the Hadera Basin, we identify the core issues that should be discussed by stakeholders using the IGA method. To this end 39 participants across 14 sectors evaluating three generic basin management strategies were asked to qualitatively explain their evaluations. By analyzing these explanations utilizing the IGA method, four core issues emerged: (1) Managing uncertainty: addressing climate change and land use impacts on stream flow; (2) Mutual impacts management: handling interactions between the stream and its surroundings; (3) Integration of uses: balancing various stream utilization priorities; (4) Defining natural system functions: determining the role of natural systems. For each core issue, we proposed questions to guide stakeholder discussions. The IGA method is thus found to be useful, and has the potential to foster meaningful dialogue in structured stakeholder meetings, thereby focusing discussions and allowing understandings among stakeholders to be reached as a basis for basin management plans. Such early understandings may contribute to the development of strategies for sustainable basin management.

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