Global IWRM Ideas and Local Context: Studying Narratives in Rural Cambodia

Integrated water resource management (IWRM) is a well-established goal, but there is little evidence about processes of integration linked to water policies. To address this, in 2016–2018 we used a content analysis, a survey and interviews with key actors leading the creation of plans to implement Europe’s Water Framework Directive and the Floods Directive. We explored whether and how implementation of these policies is being coordinated and reflect on implications for integrated water governance. We found a strong emphasis on achieving integration via coordination. Our interviews brought particular attention to the resources and capacities needed to improve collaboration across teams, including but not limited to information-sharing. Our study gives insight into practical approaches that may support coordination and hence integration of different policy goals for water management: however further theoretically-informed study to track these and other processes is required, as work to connect policy integration with IWRM is still in its infancy.

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing Integration: Insights from Integrating Implementation of European Water Policies

Waylen

Blackstock

Tindale

et al. 2019

“…On the other hand, the authors use the literature on socio-technical transitions to understand their case, a highly cited theoretical framework in transition management and the like, but somewhat neglected by the water policy transfer community. Likewise, the contribution of Leong and Mukhtarov [69] has a strong theoretical focus. The authors link more recent conceptual work on policy translation and policy analysis to understand IWRM in a Cambodian context.…”

Section: Contributions To This Special Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Let us explain: the articles here have, in line with previous scholarship on the topic (see Fritsch and Benson [60] and other works in that special issue of the International Journal of Water Governance), stressed the diversity of IWRM implementation patterns. Pellegrini et al [55], for example, examine the various embodiments of public participation and river basin management in seven European countries; for Leong and Mukhtarov [69], the juxtaposition of top-down, technocratic approaches and bottom-up, society-centred perspectives constitutes the point of departure of their research. We suggest systematising this line of thinking.…”

Section: Outlook and Avenues For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Contributions to this Special Issue provided exciting examples: van der Voorn and Quist [68] brought the widely cited, but within the IWRM community somewhat underutilised, scholarship on socio-technical transitions into play. Leong and Mukhtarov [69] link the literature on policy translation to narrative analysis. Fritsch [53] employs organisational theories to study the transfer of IWRM principles.…”

Section: Outlook and Avenues For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mutual Learning and Policy Transfer in Integrated Water Resources Management: A Research Agenda

Fritsch

Benson

2019

Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has become a global paradigm for the governance of surface, coastal and groundwater. International bodies such as the European Union, the Global Water Partnership, and the United Nations have taken the lead to promote IWRM principles, while countries worldwide have undertaken reforms to implement these principles and to restructure their domestic or regional water governance arrangements. However, the international transfer of IWRM principles raises a number of theoretical, empirical and normative questions related to its causes, processes and outcomes. These questions will be explored in our Special Issue ‘Governing IWRM: Mutual Learning and Policy Transfer’. This editorial briefly introduces IWRM and links this governance paradigm to theoretical and empirical scholarship on policy transfer. We then summarise the aims and objectives of this Special Issue, provide an overview of the articles brought together here and offer avenues for future research.

“…With the continuous development of the social economy, rapid population growth, and people's continuous pursuit of quality of life, the consumption of natural water resources by human activities has increased significantly. Since the beginning of the 21st century, with the acceleration of urbanization, the gap between the supply and demand of water resources has been an issue of global concern [1]. Statistically, by 2050 there will be 1 billion people living in cities where water is scarce year-round [2].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporter Profiling in Recycled Water Reuse: Evidence from Meta-Analysis

Duan

2020

Recycled water is considered as a viable alternative water source, and its use is of great significance in dealing with the shortage of water resources. However, it is often rejected by the public during its promotion. To identity the common social attributes of proponents of recycled water, it is essential to study the profiled customers’ willingness to accept recycled water during the most difficult initial stage of promoting recycled water use projects. A meta-analysis was conducted in this study to deal with data concerning the influence of different social demographic factors on the public’s acceptance of recycled water use. Three steps of meta-analysis were mainly used in this paper. First, a random-effect model was used to measure the effect size of influencing factors, such as age, gender, and education. It was found that younger women were more likely to accept recycled water use than older men, and individuals with higher education were more willing to accept recycled water. Then, a cumulative meta-analysis showed that it was feasible to select young women with higher education as target profile customers in the initial stage of recycled water promotion. Finally, according to a meta-regression analysis, it was revealed that different research areas and selected model methods have important regulatory effects on the intention of the target population to use recycled water.