Crans-Montana: Water Resources Management in an Alpine Tourist Resort

Clivaz, Christophe; Reynard, Emmanuel

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6748-8_7

Cited by 8 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Crans-Montana presents an interesting laboratory for analyzing modes of resource management within a mountainous touristic area. Many studies have approached this case, concentrating on hydrologic questions (Finger et al 2013), the operative ways of managing water resources (Bonriposi 2013, Clivaz & Reynard 2008, Reynard 2000, questions of resort governance of the resort (Clivaz 2006) and water networks (Bréthaut 2013a, Bréthaut 2013b, and social-political questions (Schneider 2015, Schneider et Homewood 2013. The case offers interesting features for analyzing homogeneous and heterogeneous competition for Alpine resources, particularly water resources, within the touristic area.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Coordination Between Institutional Resource Regimes as a Condition for Sustainable Management of Alpine Touristic Resources

Nahrath¹,

Bréthaut²

2016

rga

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Coordination Between Institutional Resource Regimes as a Condition for Sustainable Management of Alpine Touristic Resources

Nahrath¹,

Bréthaut²

2016

rga

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…The regional landscape is shaped by many water elements (lakes, rivers, historical water channels, glacier, and irrigated cultural landscapes). Inhabitants and tourists alike can enjoy its beauty and engage in outdoor activities such as boating, swimming, hiking, or skiing (Clivaz and Reynard 2008). Quite a large amount of water is also used for watering gardens and parks (Reynard and Bonriposi 2012).…”

Section: Societal Goals Of Regional Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the sustainability of water governance systems: the sustainability wheel

Schneider

Bonriposi

Graefe

et al. 2014

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We present and test a conceptual and methodological approach for interdisciplinary sustainability assessments of water governance systems based on what we call the sustainability wheel. The approach combines transparent identification of sustainability principles, their regional contextualization through sub-principles (indicators), and the scoring of these indicators through deliberative dialogue within an interdisciplinary team of researchers, taking into account their various qualitative and quantitative research results. The approach was applied to a sustainability assessment of a complex water governance system in the Swiss Alps. We conclude that the applied approach is advantageous for structuring complex and heterogeneous knowledge, gaining a holistic and comprehensive perspective on water sustainability, and communicating this perspective to stakeholders.

show abstract

Section: Iwrmmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In practice, issues of coordination amongst different communes over one basin are particularly problematic in Valais (Clivaz and Reynard, 2008), since the communes have a large degree of autonomy, while the canton has low financial capacity. This decreases the canton's ability to implement federal legislation or a common hydropower policy (Staatsrat, 2008) across different communes (Clivaz and Reynard, 2008). Since all lateral rivers are under the sovereignty of the communes "it doesn't really matter what the canton says -they have the end decision about how the water is used, and which projects are implemented" (Expert 7).…”

Section: Iwrmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Converging threats: assessing socio‐economic and climate impacts on water governance

Hill

2010

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose -It is increasingly recognised that water will be the prime medium through which climate change impacts will be felt. But water governance issues are already deemed to be a prime cause of a global water issues. Not only will climate change affect the function and operation of existing water infrastructure and institutions but additionally, current frameworks may not be robust enough to cope with climate change impacts. Effective water governance is seen as essential to building adaptive capacity in communities to manage future climatic uncertainty and stress. The purpose of this paper is to assess socio-economic and climate impacts on water governance. Design/methodology/approach -As a first step in assessing adaptive capacity of two river basins, this paper explores current vulnerabilities in a Swiss water governance arrangement, and then proposes the subsequent implications for water resource management within a climate change context. It presents results from a governance assessment in the specific context of integrated water resource management and suggests a means to develop the assessment to address the issue of climate change and extreme events. Findings -A low level of integration and highly segregated approach to water resources management suggests that the potential ramifications of climate change and expanding water uses may not be adequately reflected in their current governance framework. Originality/value -The paper explores the current governance context in order to improve the understanding of how regulatory and institutional regimes may facilitate the development of adaptive capacity. It then proposes additional methodological steps to improve on such an assessment to take into better account the dynamic interplay between the human, hydrological and climate components of the system.

show abstract

Crans-Montana: Water Resources Management in an Alpine Tourist Resort

Cited by 8 publications

References 0 publications

Coordination Between Institutional Resource Regimes as a Condition for Sustainable Management of Alpine Touristic Resources

Coordination Between Institutional Resource Regimes as a Condition for Sustainable Management of Alpine Touristic Resources

Assessing the sustainability of water governance systems: the sustainability wheel

Converging threats: assessing socio‐economic and climate impacts on water governance

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About