Urban Water Governance in Europe and in China: Key Challenges, Benchmarks and Approaches

2019 ◽  
pp. 249-282
Author(s):  
Moritz Reese
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Urban Water

scholarly journals Urban Water Governance and Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1424-1428
Author(s):  
Sudhanshu Dubey ◽  
Indrani Chakraborty ◽  
Subhrajit Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Urban Water

Integrated urban water governance in Belo Horizonte, Brazil: changes and inertias

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 232
Author(s):  
Ana Paula B.V. Oliveira ◽  
Léo Heller ◽  
Nilo Nascimento ◽  
Emanuele Lobina
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Belo Horizonte

scholarly journals To Be, to Do, to Share: The Triple-Loop of Water Governance to Improve Urban Water Resilience—Testing the Benidorm’ Experience, Spain

Land ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Sandra Ricart ◽  
Antonio M. Rico-Amorós
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Loop Analysis ◽  
Technical Management ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Systematic Understanding

Peri-urban interfaces tend to ensure water supply relying on their surrounding’ resources, generating water disputes when asking for collaboration. The urban-rural matrix of the Marina Baja county in southern Spain is characterized by inland irrigation and coastal tourism development, being the most water-intensive activities in Benidorm. This contribution addresses the following research question: Can a better and systematic understanding of stakeholders’ behavior and interactions increase water resilience in urban-rural interfaces? Data were collected from semi-structured interviews and questionnaires to 19 key stakeholders representing government officials, water managers, and the agricultural, tourism, and environmental sectors. Data were analyzed following the SAA and using MaxQDA® Analytics Pro 2020. A triple-loop analysis on water governance has been developed and applied to synthesize stakeholders’ behavior when addressing urban water resilience to face climate change impacts: relevance and representativeness (to be), recognition and assessment (to do), and collaboration (to share). Results highlighted how Benidorm’s urban water resilience is conditioned by four main learnings from stakeholders’ perception and interaction: (1) ‘feeling represented’ is related to stakeholders’ capacity to negotiate decisions, (2) lack of political will and Benidorm’s leading role increase stakeholders’ feelings of underrepresentation, motivating power imbalance, (3) stakeholders’ actions are less valued than stakeholders’ roles and functions, and (4) agreements are benefited by predisposition (willingness), but also by the compatibility of discourses (affinity) and the technical-management facilities (viability).

scholarly journals Transforming urban water governance through social (triple‐loop) learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åse Johannessen ◽  
Åsa Gerger Swartling ◽  
Christine Wamsler ◽  
Kim Andersson ◽  
Julian Timothy Arran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Urban Water

scholarly journals Alternative governance arrangements for modular water infrastructure: An exploratory review

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 53-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Pakizer ◽  
Eva Lieberherr
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Modular Systems ◽  
The Status ◽  
Formal Policy ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Governance Arrangements

This article presents an exploratory review of alternative governance arrangements for modular systems in the urban water sector in terms of policy instruments, organizational structure, and underlying mechanisms. We develop an analytical framework to review the literature on alternative arrangements for innovative technologies. The preliminary results highlight the importance of governmental involvement and formal policy instruments to ensure public and environmental health in the context of modular water infrastructures. This is in line with the status quo of conventional water governance arrangements. However, the findings also suggest that informal instruments supplement the formal ones and that instead of political-administrative accountability more horizontal mechanisms, such as answerability toward citizens and consumers, play an important role in the context of new water technologies.

scholarly journals Integrated Urban Water Management and Water Security: A Comparison of Singapore and Hong Kong

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Jensen ◽  
Sreeja Nair
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Water Management ◽  
Integrated Urban Water Management ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) has emerged in the past two decades as a promising approach to the application of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) principles at the city-level. IUWM is expected to contribute to the achievement of multiple policy objectives, often including increased water security. This paper uses a case-based approach to study the impact of IUWM on water security, focusing on the influence of the level of institutionalization of IUWM within water governance at the city-level. Process tracing is applied to the cases of Singapore and Hong Kong, in which IUWM has been adopted but implementation and outcomes have diverged. We find that the depth of institutionalization, a difference between the two cases identified at the outset, has contributed to the achievement of better water security outcomes in Singapore as it has facilitated the development and implementation of a more far-reaching strategy. A supportive governance framework appears to amplify the impact of IUWM on progress towards water security and other policy targets.

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