The future of adaptive water management: law and governance

Burchi, Stefano; D’Andrea, Ariella; Eckstein, Gabriel; Nanni, Marcella

doi:10.1080/02508060.2012.721343

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“…The ‘learning by doing’ approach of Adaptive Management recognizes the complex adaptive system characteristics of the hydro‐social cycle, to aim for active and reflective stakeholder participation . It calls for water management measures to be flexible and requires a consideration of the full range of regulatory, economic, social, and technical measures (including, e.g., demand reduction options, green water credits, food imports, legislation). The over‐arching philosophy of both adaptive management and demand management may also be more amenable to harnessing local knowledge, though the latter in particular is subject to flaws linked with its view of water as an economic good, and its susceptibility to the same obstacles preventing change in consumer behavior related to carbon footprints .…”

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Current and future challenges facing transboundary river basin management

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Goulden

Tickner

2013

WIREs Climate Change

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This review employs academic and policy literature to gage the relative importance and concerns associated with the main challenges facing the management of transboundary river basins: increasing pressures; management and policy that has not kept pace with a broadened set of actors; the influence of climate change; and the politics of reconciling political borders and basin boundaries. The persistence of the supply-side management philosophy within current political economies is also reviewed, along with infrastructure and institutional responses to the challenges (e.g., IWRM, dams, treaties). An analytical frame developed from the review is applied to three basins where there has been successful, considerable, or no effort at transboundary basin management: the Rhine, the Nile, and the Euphrates. International politics and national self-interest are found to be the key challenge facing international basins, though each of the challenges is interconnected and should be considered in combination. If transboundary basin management is to confront the challenges successfully, it should develop along two paths: away from a supply-side management paradigm toward adaptive management, and away from sovereignty and unilateralism to multilateralism. While infrastructure built under a paradigm of reducing uncertainty is found to reduce the adaptation options set, adaptive management that can make the most of the increasingly diverse governance and confront the supply-management philosophy is seen as best-suited to meet future challenges. The disabling effect of sovereignty and international politics may best be addressed by confronting resistance of the promotion of 'shared sovereignty' and fair water-sharing. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

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