How Global Norms for Large Dams Reach Decision-Makers

Scheumann, Waltina

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76707-7_3

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“…By themselves, however, these elements were not sufficiently robust to translate into effective rulemaking. Instead, while quite comprehensive, the "rules" for dam decision-making put forward by the WCD did not garner broadly based legitimacy, and were embraced (unevenly, at that) primarily by donor organizations rather than dambuilding nations, which exacerbated conflicts about conditionality and national sovereignty that the WCD was in no position to resolve (Dubash 2010, Scheumann 2008. Given this substantial gap between elements, the policy trajectory has arrived at a point of mixed results.…”

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Missing Links in Global Water Governance: a Processes-Oriented Analysis

Pahl‐Wostl¹,

Conca²,

Kramer³

et al. 2013

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ABSTRACT. Over the past decade, the policy and scholarly communities have increasingly recognized the need for governance of water-related issues at the global level. There has been major progress in the achievement of international goals related to the provision of basic water and some progress on sanitation services. However, the water challenge is much broader than securing supply. Doubts have been raised about the effectiveness of some of the existing governance processes, in the face of trends such as the unsustainable use of water resources, the increasing pressure imposed by climate change, or the implications of population growth for water use in food and energy production. Conflicts between different water uses and users are increasing, and the state of the aquatic environment is further declining. Inequity in access to basic water and sanitation services is still an issue. We argue that missing links in the trajectories of policy development are one major reason for the relative ineffectiveness of global water governance. To identify these critical links, a framework is used to examine how core governance processes are performed and linked. Special attention is given to the role of leadership, representativeness, legitimacy, and comprehensiveness, which we take to be critical characteristics of the processes that underpin effective trajectories of policy development and implementation. The relevance of the identified categories is illustrated with examples from three important policy arenas in global water governance: the effort to address access to water and sanitation, currently through the Millennium Development Goals; the controversy over large dams; and the links between climate change and water resources management. Exploratory analyses of successes and failures in each domain are used to identify implications and propose improvements for more effective and legitimate action.

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Section: Link Type Ii: Missing Links Between Elementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Missing Links in Global Water Governance: a Processes-Oriented Analysis

Pahl‐Wostl¹,

Conca²,

Kramer³

et al. 2013

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“…10 As the EIA did not secure access to credit guarantees for Ilısu, one foreign partner after the other backed out. Skanska withdrew in late 2000, just before the World Commission on Dams issued its influential report with social and environmental guidelines for large dams, which was welcomed by the bilateral donors (Scheumann 2008). ABB had ceded its involvement to French company Alstom.…”

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“…While Turkey had initially rejected the norms established by the World Commission on Dams, it started to incorporate them in its dams' policy (Scheumann 2008). In 2006 the government agreed on conditions and complied with part of the international conditionalities.…”

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The struggle over Turkey’s Ilısu Dam: domestic and international security linkages

Warner

2012

Int Environ Agreements

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While on the surface the Turkish state appears to have asymmetrical power vis-à-vis downstreamers and local societal opponents, and therefore, the ability to shape basin politics, domestic, basin and international protest over the 'securitised' Ilısu Dam in Turkey proved more decisive in that respect. A cornerstone of the GAP (Gu¨neydogu Anadolu Projesi, Southeast Anatolia Project) multi-dam project to harness the water from the Euphrates and Tigris, the dam project elicited successful resistance from Turkey's downstream neighbours, social and environmental NGOs and professionals targeting the international donors and contractors. On the basis of document research and interviews, this article investigates which factors opened up the space for politicising the project, and how this politicisation played out in both the domestic and international domain. The link between the securitised (where water is almost by default a security issue) and nonsecuritised spheres of hydropolitical decision-making (where it is not) proved crucial to the success of the anti-dam opposition.

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“…However, such constructions alter ownership and access patterns, often transforming previous customary owners into victims of submergence, and thus creating new rules of access and allocation, concentrating power in the hands of the few (Conca 2006;Molle et al 2009). For instance, the World Commission on Dams' recommendations, although heavily cited, were never seen as entirely legitimate (because of the status of the Commission) (Dingwerth 2004) nor were they actively and effectively implemented (Fink and Cramer 2008;Scheumann 2008;Dore and Lebel 2010b).…”

Section: Water Governancementioning

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Access and allocation in earth system governance: water and climate change compared

Gupta

Lebel

2010

Int Environ Agreements

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A significant percentage of the global population does not yet have access to safe drinking water, sufficient food or energy to live in dignity. There is a continuous struggle to allocate the earth's resources among users and uses. This article argues that distributional problems have two faces: access to basic resources or ecospace; and, the allocation of environmental resources, risks, burdens, and responsibilities for causing problems. Furthermore, addressing problems of access and allocation often requires access to social processes (science, movements and law). Analysts, however, have tended to take a narrow, disciplinary approach although an integrated conceptual approach may yield better answers. This article proposes a multi-disciplinary perspective to the problem of access and allocation and illustrates its application to water management and climate change.

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How Global Norms for Large Dams Reach Decision-Makers

Cited by 19 publications

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Missing Links in Global Water Governance: a Processes-Oriented Analysis

Missing Links in Global Water Governance: a Processes-Oriented Analysis

The struggle over Turkey’s Ilısu Dam: domestic and international security linkages

Access and allocation in earth system governance: water and climate change compared

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