IWRM in England: bridging the gap between top-down and bottom-up implementation

Watson, Nigel

doi:10.1080/07900627.2014.899892

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“…Creating a greater sense of ownership of EVOp by the wider community is important for its continuation and future success; this may partly be achieved by the development of crowdsourcing tools to enable a wide range of people to contribute to tackling science problems. This supports statements that catchment science and management should follow bottom-up working principles (Fraser et al 2006;McGonigle et al 2014;Watson, 2014) whereby stakeholders on the ground need to be engaged and involved in catchment management and restoration projects. Local catchment stakeholders identified important merits of using the LEFT (and cloud based tools in general), for example, being able to access data and tools remotely that are normally not available to them.…”

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A cloud based tool for knowledge exchange on local scale flood risk

Wilkinson

Mackay

Quinn

et al. 2015

Journal of Environmental Management

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There is an emerging and urgent need for new approaches for the management of environmental challenges such as flood hazard in the broad context of sustainability. This requires a new way of working which bridges disciplines and organisations, and that breaks down science-culture boundaries. With this, there is growing recognition that the appropriate involvement of local communities in catchment management decisions can result in multiple benefits. However, new tools are required to connect organisations and communities. The growth of cloud based technologies offers a novel way to facilitate this process of exchange of information in environmental science and management; however, stakeholders need to be engaged with as part of the development process from the beginning rather than being presented with a final product at the end. Here we present the development of a pilot Local Environmental Virtual Observatory Flooding Tool. The aim was to develop a cloud based learning platform for stakeholders, bringing together fragmented data, models and visualisation tools that will enable these stakeholders to make scientifically informed environmental management decisions at the local scale. It has been developed by engaging with different stakeholder groups in three catchment case studies in the UK and a panel of national experts in relevant topic areas. However, these case study catchments are typical of many northern latitude catchments. The tool was designed to communicate flood risk in locally impacted communities whilst engaging with landowners/farmers about the risk of runoff from the farmed landscape. It has been developed iteratively to reflect the needs, interests and capabilities of a wide range of stakeholders. The pilot tool combines cloud based services, local catchment datasets, a hydrological model and bespoke visualisation tools to explore real time hydrometric data and the impact of flood risk caused by future land use changes. The novel aspects of the pilot tool are; the co-evolution of tools on a cloud based platform with stakeholders, policy and scientists; encouraging different science disciplines to work together; a wealth of information that is accessible and understandable to a range of stakeholders; and provides a framework for how to approach the development of such a cloud based tool in the future. Above all, stakeholders saw the tool and the potential of cloud technologies as an effective means to taking a whole systems approach to solving environmental issues. This sense of community ownership is essential in order to facilitate future appropriate and acceptable land use management decisions to be co-developed by local catchment communities. The development processes and the resulting pilot tool could be applied to local catchments globally to facilitate bottom up catchment management approaches.

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confidence: 75%

A cloud based tool for knowledge exchange on local scale flood risk

Wilkinson

Mackay

Quinn

et al. 2015

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Watson [25] stated that the question on how IWRM "implementation should be approached strategically ( . .…”

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IWRM through WFD Implementation? Drivers for Integration in Polycentric Water Governance Systems

Schröder

2019

Water

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This paper uses an empirical approach to explore what motivates the adoption of integrated water resources management (IWRM). The study compares cases of local implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) from five German federal states representing various types of local policy addressees. Data were collected using policy analysis methods, including participatory observation and interviews with planners who had implemented WFD measures and conducted integration attempts of various types throughout the planning processes. The planning narratives on integration were analysed iteratively and its characteristics, drivers, and hampering factors were identified. It was found that policy addressees attempt integration due to the incentives for reaching their goals rather than according to their paradigms. Depending on the power relations, incentives result in the integration of different actors during different planning phases. The findings suggest that in order to strategically induce integration, it would be necessary to enhance the incentives based on a detailed knowledge of power relations. The WFD as a general regulatory framework was found not to be a driver for local integration, but the WFD did induce increased integrated management through setting goals.

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“…While the incorporation of IWRM principles in the NWP is a good starting point to promote IWRM application, the Nepal case study confirms that to ensure meaningful application of IWRM, such incorporation has to match with or be accommodated by the existing governance structure and institutional set-up and, as importantly, by reflection and dialogue among the main stakeholders on which principles are relevant to the current context (Watson, 2014). Of particular importance is to consider the existing power relations among public agencies in the water sector, where the most powerful actors have more reasons to resist than to support IWRM implementation (Schoeman, Allan, & Finlayson, 2014).…”

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Integrated water resources management in Nepal: key stakeholders' perceptions and lessons learned

Suhardiman

Clément

Bharati

2015

International Journal of Water Resources Development

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Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been prescribed in the global water policy literature for decades. This article looks at how the concept has been applied in Nepal. It highlights the normative approach in IWRM policy formulation, the existing institutional barriers to apply it and how these resulted in the framing of IWRM 'implementation' as merely a compilation of donor-funded projects. Current discourse on IWRM highlights the need to shift the emphasis from national policy formulation to local adaptive, pragmatic approaches to IWRM. This article brings to light the need to identify potential entry points to scale up locally rooted water management approaches towards the development of nested institutional set-ups in water resources management.

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IWRM in England: bridging the gap between top-down and bottom-up implementation

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

A cloud based tool for knowledge exchange on local scale flood risk

A cloud based tool for knowledge exchange on local scale flood risk

IWRM through WFD Implementation? Drivers for Integration in Polycentric Water Governance Systems

Integrated water resources management in Nepal: key stakeholders' perceptions and lessons learned

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