Institutional Conditions for IWRM: The Israeli Case

Fischhendler, Itay

doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.2007.00383.x

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“…Technical insufficiencies, local resistance by water mangers and lack of coordination between public agencies have already been identified as serious limitations of the new approaches (e.g. Fischhendler, 2008;Funke et al, 2007), but the more fundamental weaknesses of the IWRM doctrine are not normally acknowledged. For explanatory purposes, Table 1 presents a typology of the intrinsic shortcomings of the IWRM model, which are discussed below.…”

Section: Interrogating the Institutional Water Reformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water reforms in Brazil: opportunities and constraints

Ioris

2009

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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The last decade saw repeated attempts to adopt and implement an integrated management of water in Brazil. Internationally established principles, such as water economics and public participation, have influenced the development of a novel regulatory framework for water use and conservation in the country. However, despite changes in policies and in the legislation, the opportunity to address old and new management problems has been largely frustrated by the internal contradictions of the ongoing institutional reforms. A case study of the Paraiba do Sul River Basin demonstrates the distance between, on the one hand, calls for decentralisation and responsibility sharing and, on the other hand, the persistence of bureaucratised and exclusionary practices. The main distortion is the excessive effort expended on the introduction of water pricing and environmental charges, a controversial policy instrument that has dominated the agenda of the new river basin committee, at the expense of addressing river restoration, public mobilisation and environmental justice.water regulation, integrated water resource management (IWRM), water charges, water pricing, public participation, Paraiba do Sul, Brazil,

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Section: Interrogating the Institutional Water Reformsmentioning

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Water reforms in Brazil: opportunities and constraints

Ioris

2009

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…Given the increasing costs associated with producing additional supplies of water, and diminishing quality of existing sources, regional water experts in MENA and international development institutions have begun advocating IWRM (Fischhendler 2008;Mohorjy and Grigg 1995;Kandil 2003;Elarabawy et al 2000). IWRM emphasizes inter-governmental coordination and enhanced participation from diverse communities of water users.…”

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Climate change, water resources, and the politics of adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa

2010

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Through an examination of global climate change models combined with hydrological data on deteriorating water quality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), we elucidate the ways in which the MENA countries are vulnerable to climate-induced impacts on water resources. Adaptive governance strategies, however, remain a low priority for political leaderships in the MENA region. To date, most MENA governments have concentrated the bulk of their resources on largescale supply side projects such as desalination, dam construction, inter-basin water transfers, tapping fossil groundwater aquifers, and importing virtual water. Because managing water demand, improving the efficiency of water use, and promoting conservation will be key ingredients in responding to climate-induced impacts on the water sector, we analyze the political, economic, and institutional drivers that have shaped governance responses. While the scholarly literature emphasizes the importance of social capital to adaptive governance, we find that many political leaders and water experts in the MENA rarely engage societal actors in considering water risks. We conclude that the key capacities for adaptive governance to water scarcity in MENA are underdeveloped.The authors share equal responsibility for the content and analysis herein.

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“…The approach has been described (Kidd and Shaw 2007), explained (Fischhendler 2008), evaluated (Fritsch and Benson 2013), and explored in conceptual terms (Grigg 2014). The overall message this literature, and the wealth of policy documents building on IWRM, sends out is one of conceptual pluralism.…”

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Integrated and adaptive water resources management: exploring public participation in the UK

Fritsch

2016

Reg Environ Change

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Contemporary water management practices worldwide are informed by two leading paradigms: integrated water resources management and adaptive management. While previous scholarship has already studied the two paradigms, as well as their central principles, in isolation, there are few attempts only to theorise their interaction and to explore empirically their parallel implementation and co-existence. This article contributes to this emerging literature. Its ambition is to review and complement current frameworks conceptualising the impact of integrated water resources management on adaptive capacity. To this end, the article analyses the involvement of non-state actors in United Kingdom water and flood risk management, specifically in England and Wales. This is an exciting case to study: for many decades, environmental management in England and Wales had a reputation for being a technocratic exercise. In the past 15 years, however, environmental authorities undertook major efforts to lay the foundations for enhanced collaboration and stakeholder participation, amongst others encouraged by two European Union initiatives reflecting integrated and adaptive management principles: the Water Framework Directive and the Floods Directive. The empirical evidence suggests a spurious link only between the two paradigms. This contradicts conventional wisdom which, so I argue, tends to oversimplify a complex relationship. I introduce three theory-informed arguments -relating to conceptual diversity, path dependency, and the nature of the dependent variable -to address these shortcomings and to contribute to theory building.

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Institutional Conditions for IWRM: The Israeli Case

Cited by 34 publications

References 18 publications

Water reforms in Brazil: opportunities and constraints

Water reforms in Brazil: opportunities and constraints

Climate change, water resources, and the politics of adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa

Integrated and adaptive water resources management: exploring public participation in the UK

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