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Dave Huitema - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Policy entrepreneurs and change strategies lessons from sixteen case studies of Water transitions around the globe
Ecology and Society, 2010Co-Authors: Sander Meijerink, Dave HuitemaAbstract:This paper focuses on the role of Policy entrepreneurs in realizing Water Policy transitions. The central questions are to what extent have Policy entrepreneurs played a role in realizing major change in Water policies, who are these Policy entrepreneurs, and what strategies have they used to bring about change? The Policy science literature suggests that Policy entrepreneurs have an "arsenal" of possible strategies for achieving change. Based on a comparative analysis of Water Policy changes in 15 countries around the globe and the European Union, we investigate which strategies have in practice been used by Policy entrepreneurs, to what effect, and which lessons for managing Water transitions we can draw from this. The comparative case analysis shows that individuals play complementary roles; hence, entrepreneurship in Water management is often collective entrepreneurship. Strategies of coalition building, the manipulation of decision making forums, and the strategic framing of issues and windows are crucial to understanding Water Policy change, which suggests that the management of Water Policy transitions is a highly political game. We conclude by listing recommendations for those who would like to direct Water Policy change.
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Water Policy entrepreneurs a research companion to Water transitions around the globe
Water policy entrepreneurs: a research companion to water transitions around the globe., 2009Co-Authors: Dave Huitema, Sander MeijerinkAbstract:Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Transitions in Water Management: Positioning this Book, Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink 2. Understanding and Managing Water Policy Transitions, a Policy Science Perspective, Sander Meijerink and Dave Huitema 3. Driving Forces in Global Fresh Water Governance, Joyeeta Gupta PART II: THE AMERICAS 4. Transitions: Transcending Multiple Ways of Knowing Water Resources in the United States, Helen Ingram and Raul Lejano 5. Political and Economic Apertures and the Shifting State-Citizen Relationship: Reforming Mexico's National Water Policy, Margaret Wilder PART III: AUSTRALASIA 6. Implementing Integrated River Basin Management in China, Dorri te Boekhorst, Toine Smits, Yu Xiubo, Li Lifeng, Lei Gang and Zhang Chen 7. Where Does Policy Change Come From? And Where Does it End Up? Establishing Water User Associations in Large-Scale Canal Irrigation Systems in India, Vishal Narain 8. Averted Crises, Contested Transitions: Water Management in the Upper Ping River Basin, Northern Thailand, Louis Lebel, Po Garden, Nutthawat Subsin and Sakkarin Na Nan 9. Transitions in Indonesian Water Policy: Policy Windows through Crisis, Response through Implementation, Anjali Bhat and Peter P. Mollinga 10. The Contribution of Actors to Achieving Sustainability in Australia through Water Policy Transitions, Sara Hughes and Jennifer McKay PART IV: AFRICA 11. South African Water and Mining Policy: A Study of Strategies for Transition Management, Anthony Richard Turton 12. Past, Present and Future Landscapes of Water Policy in Tanzania, Jaqui Goldin and Deusdedit Kibassa PART V: EUROPE 13. European Union Water Policy: To Transition or Not to Transition? Coalitions as Key, Lena Partzsch 14. The Introduction of Floodplain Rehabilitation and Rural Development into the Water Policy for the Tisza River in Hungary, Saskia E. Werners, Zsuzsanna Flachner and Piotr Matczak 15. Spanish Water Management in Transition: Transition Management Watered Down? Nuria Font and Joan Subirats 16. Neo-Liberal Transitions in Hydropower and Irrigation Water Management in Turkey: Main Actors and Opposition Groups, Aysegul Kibaroglu, Argun Baskan and Sezin Alp 17. Transitions to Adaptive Approaches to Water Management and Governance in Sweden, Per Olsson and Victor Galaz 18. Germany: Transitions in Flood Management in the Rhine Basin, Gert Becker 19. Policy Dynamics in Dutch Water Management: Analyzing the Contribution of Policy Entrepreneurs to Policy Change, Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink PART VI: CONCLUSIONS 20. Water Policy Transitions, Policy Entrepreneurs and Change Strategies: Lessons Learned, Sander Meijerink and Dave Huitema
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the added value of Water footprint assessment for national Water Policy a case study for morocco
PLOS ONE, 2014Co-Authors: Joseph Franciscus Schyns, Arjen Ysbert HoekstraAbstract:A Water Footprint Assessment is carried out for Morocco, mapping the Water footprint of different activities at river basin and monthly scale, distinguishing between surface- and groundWater. The paper aims to demonstrate the added value of detailed analysis of the human Water footprint within a country and thorough assessment of the virtual Water flows leaving and entering a country for formulating national Water Policy. Green, blue and grey Water footprint estimates and virtual Water flows are mainly derived from a previous grid-based (5×5 arc minute) global study for the period 1996–2005. These estimates are placed in the context of monthly natural runoff and waste assimilation capacity per river basin derived from Moroccan data sources. The study finds that: (i) evaporation from storage reservoirs is the second largest form of blue Water consumption in Morocco, after irrigated crop production; (ii) Morocco’s Water and land resources are mainly used to produce relatively low-value (in US$/m3 and US$/ha) crops such as cereals, olives and almonds; (iii) most of the virtual Water export from Morocco relates to the export of products with a relatively low economic Water productivity (in US$/m3); (iv) blue Water scarcity on a monthly scale is severe in all river basins and pressure on groundWater resources by abstractions and nitrate pollution is considerable in most basins; (v) the estimated potential Water savings by partial relocation of crops to basins where they consume less Water and by reducing Water footprints of crops down to benchmark levels are significant compared to demand reducing and supply increasing measures considered in Morocco’s national Water strategy
Anthony S Kiem - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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drought and Water Policy in australia challenges for the future illustrated by the issues associated with Water trading and climate change adaptation in the murray darling basin
Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions, 2013Co-Authors: Anthony S KiemAbstract:Abstract This paper reviews historical and existing drought and Water Policy in Australia in order to gain a sense of the strengths and weaknesses in enabling effective adaptation to climate change. In particular, (a) the social, economic, and environmental costs and benefits of Water trading and (b) the limitations of using ‘market-based’ instruments (MBIs), like Water trading, for adapting to drought and Water security related climate change impacts are investigated. It was found that Water trading has potential as a climate change adaptation strategy with many benefits experienced in previous and current versions of Water trading. However, there are also limitations and those negatively impacted by Water trading are hit hard. These social impacts of Water trading have not been thoroughly investigated and are not well understood. Significant uncertainty also exists around the impacts of Water trading on the environment (e.g. changed hydrological regimes, underestimation of sustainable environmental flows etc.). Proper quantification of these impacts is needed, however, it is a complex task given Australia's large hydroclimatic variability and the current lack of understanding as to how to optimise Water needs of the environment, humans, agriculture and other industries. It appears that ‘cap and trade’ quantity-based MBIs such as Water trading will eventually do what they are designed to do (i.e. reallocate a resource to ‘high value’ users). However, given that the ‘low value’ users in this case are agriculture and town/urban Water supply (not including drinking Water) and the ‘high value’ users are mining, manufacturing, and electricity production (i.e. high greenhouse gas emissions), do we really want the Water trading MBI to achieve its objective? And, what would the social and environmental ramifications of such a shift in Water use within Australia be? These questions, along with the limitations and potential implications of using Water trading (and MBIs in general) as a climate change adaptation tool, must be carefully considered if past Australian drought and Water Policy failures are not to be repeated.
Nikolaos Voulvoulis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Transition of EU Water Policy Towards the Water Framework Directive’s Integrated River Basin Management Paradigm
Environmental Management, 2018Co-Authors: Theodoros Giakoumis, Nikolaos VoulvoulisAbstract:Introduced in 2000 to reform and rationalise Water Policy and management across the European Union (EU) Member States (MS), the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the EU’s flagship legislation on Water protection, is widely acknowledged as the embodiment and vessel for the application of the Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM) paradigm. Its ecological objectives, perhaps even more challenging than the prospect of statutory catchment planning itself, were for all EU Waters to achieve ‘good status’ by 2015 (except where exemptions applied) and the prevention of any further deterioration. In support of the upcoming WFD review in 2019, the paper reviews the transition of EU policies that led to the adoption of the WFD, to identify the reasons why the Directive was introduced and what it is trying to deliver, and to place progress with its implementation into context. It further investigates reasons that might have limited the effectiveness of the Directive and contributed to the limited delivery and delays in Water quality improvements. Findings reveal that different interpretations on the Directive’s objectives and exemptions left unresolved since its negotiation, ambiguity and compromises observed by its Common Implementation Strategy and lack of real support for the Policy shift required have all been barriers to the harmonised transposition of the IRBM paradigm, the key to delivering good ecological status. The 2019 WFD review offers a unique opportunity to realign the implementation of the Directive to its initial aspirations and goals.
Sander Meijerink - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Policy entrepreneurs and change strategies lessons from sixteen case studies of Water transitions around the globe
Ecology and Society, 2010Co-Authors: Sander Meijerink, Dave HuitemaAbstract:This paper focuses on the role of Policy entrepreneurs in realizing Water Policy transitions. The central questions are to what extent have Policy entrepreneurs played a role in realizing major change in Water policies, who are these Policy entrepreneurs, and what strategies have they used to bring about change? The Policy science literature suggests that Policy entrepreneurs have an "arsenal" of possible strategies for achieving change. Based on a comparative analysis of Water Policy changes in 15 countries around the globe and the European Union, we investigate which strategies have in practice been used by Policy entrepreneurs, to what effect, and which lessons for managing Water transitions we can draw from this. The comparative case analysis shows that individuals play complementary roles; hence, entrepreneurship in Water management is often collective entrepreneurship. Strategies of coalition building, the manipulation of decision making forums, and the strategic framing of issues and windows are crucial to understanding Water Policy change, which suggests that the management of Water Policy transitions is a highly political game. We conclude by listing recommendations for those who would like to direct Water Policy change.
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Water Policy entrepreneurs a research companion to Water transitions around the globe
Water policy entrepreneurs: a research companion to water transitions around the globe., 2009Co-Authors: Dave Huitema, Sander MeijerinkAbstract:Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Transitions in Water Management: Positioning this Book, Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink 2. Understanding and Managing Water Policy Transitions, a Policy Science Perspective, Sander Meijerink and Dave Huitema 3. Driving Forces in Global Fresh Water Governance, Joyeeta Gupta PART II: THE AMERICAS 4. Transitions: Transcending Multiple Ways of Knowing Water Resources in the United States, Helen Ingram and Raul Lejano 5. Political and Economic Apertures and the Shifting State-Citizen Relationship: Reforming Mexico's National Water Policy, Margaret Wilder PART III: AUSTRALASIA 6. Implementing Integrated River Basin Management in China, Dorri te Boekhorst, Toine Smits, Yu Xiubo, Li Lifeng, Lei Gang and Zhang Chen 7. Where Does Policy Change Come From? And Where Does it End Up? Establishing Water User Associations in Large-Scale Canal Irrigation Systems in India, Vishal Narain 8. Averted Crises, Contested Transitions: Water Management in the Upper Ping River Basin, Northern Thailand, Louis Lebel, Po Garden, Nutthawat Subsin and Sakkarin Na Nan 9. Transitions in Indonesian Water Policy: Policy Windows through Crisis, Response through Implementation, Anjali Bhat and Peter P. Mollinga 10. The Contribution of Actors to Achieving Sustainability in Australia through Water Policy Transitions, Sara Hughes and Jennifer McKay PART IV: AFRICA 11. South African Water and Mining Policy: A Study of Strategies for Transition Management, Anthony Richard Turton 12. Past, Present and Future Landscapes of Water Policy in Tanzania, Jaqui Goldin and Deusdedit Kibassa PART V: EUROPE 13. European Union Water Policy: To Transition or Not to Transition? Coalitions as Key, Lena Partzsch 14. The Introduction of Floodplain Rehabilitation and Rural Development into the Water Policy for the Tisza River in Hungary, Saskia E. Werners, Zsuzsanna Flachner and Piotr Matczak 15. Spanish Water Management in Transition: Transition Management Watered Down? Nuria Font and Joan Subirats 16. Neo-Liberal Transitions in Hydropower and Irrigation Water Management in Turkey: Main Actors and Opposition Groups, Aysegul Kibaroglu, Argun Baskan and Sezin Alp 17. Transitions to Adaptive Approaches to Water Management and Governance in Sweden, Per Olsson and Victor Galaz 18. Germany: Transitions in Flood Management in the Rhine Basin, Gert Becker 19. Policy Dynamics in Dutch Water Management: Analyzing the Contribution of Policy Entrepreneurs to Policy Change, Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink PART VI: CONCLUSIONS 20. Water Policy Transitions, Policy Entrepreneurs and Change Strategies: Lessons Learned, Sander Meijerink and Dave Huitema
