Multi-Level Water Governance: Coping with Problems of Scale
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Multi-Level Water Governance : Coping with Problems of Scale. / Newig, Jens (Herausgeber*in); Moss, Timothy (Herausgeber*in).
Springer, 2010. 142 S. (Environmental Management; Band 46, Nr. 1).Publikation: Bücher und Anthologien › Zeitschriftenhefte › Forschung
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Multi-Level Water Governance
T2 - Coping with Problems of Scale
A2 - Newig, Jens
A2 - Moss, Timothy
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Environmental governance and management are facing a multiplicity of challenges related to spatial scales and multiple levels of governance. Water management is a field particularly sensitive to issues of scale because the hydrological system with its different scalar levels from small catchments to large river basins plays such a prominent role. It thus exemplifies fundamental issues and dilemmas of scale in modern environmental management and governance. In this introductory article to an Environmental Management special feature on “Multilevel Water Governance: Coping with Problems of Scale,” we delineate our understanding of problems of scale and the dimensions of scalar politics that are central to water resource management. We provide an overview of the contributions to this special feature, concluding with a discussion of how scalar research can usefully challenge conventional wisdom on water resource management. We hope that this discussion of water governance stimulates a broader debate and inquiry relating to the scalar dimensions of environmental governance and management in general.
AB - Environmental governance and management are facing a multiplicity of challenges related to spatial scales and multiple levels of governance. Water management is a field particularly sensitive to issues of scale because the hydrological system with its different scalar levels from small catchments to large river basins plays such a prominent role. It thus exemplifies fundamental issues and dilemmas of scale in modern environmental management and governance. In this introductory article to an Environmental Management special feature on “Multilevel Water Governance: Coping with Problems of Scale,” we delineate our understanding of problems of scale and the dimensions of scalar politics that are central to water resource management. We provide an overview of the contributions to this special feature, concluding with a discussion of how scalar research can usefully challenge conventional wisdom on water resource management. We hope that this discussion of water governance stimulates a broader debate and inquiry relating to the scalar dimensions of environmental governance and management in general.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication
KW - Water management
KW - Multilevel governance
KW - Problems of scale
KW - Rescaling
M3 - Special Journal issue
T3 - Environmental Management
BT - Multi-Level Water Governance
PB - Springer
ER -