scholarly journals The application of environmental governance for sustainable watershed-based management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seiichi Kagaya ◽  
Tetsuya Wada
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Watershed Management ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Environment Assessment ◽  
Control Water

AbstractIn recent years, it has become popular for some of countries and regions to adapt the system of governance to varied and complex issues concerned with regional development and the environment. Watershed management is possibly the best example of this. It involves flood control, water use management and river environment simultaneously. Therefore, comprehensive watershed-based management should be aimed at balancing those aims. The objectives of this study are to introduce the notion of environmental governance into the planning process, to establish a method for assessing the alternatives and to develop a procedure for determining the most appropriate plan for environmental governance. The planning process here is based on strategic environment assessment (SEA). To verify the hypothetical approach, the middle river basin in the Tokachi River, Japan was selected as a case study. In practice, after workshop discussions, it was found to have the appropriate degree of consensus based on the balance of flood control and environmental protection in the watershed.

Evaluating stakeholder involvement in river basin planning: a Scottish case study

Water Policy ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 493-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsty L. Blackstock ◽  
Caspian Richards
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
River Basin Management Plans ◽  
River Basin Planning

River basin management demonstrates the increasing importance of active stakeholder involvement within environmental governance, whereby planning and implementation relies on outcomes from collective reasoned discussion. However, claims that stakeholder involvement improves environmental governance are rarely subject to critical examination. This lack of evaluation is problematic for several reasons including: lack of reflection on the purpose of involvement processes or their limitations; a poor conceptualisation of who should be defined as a stakeholder; how different knowledge claims should be treated; and how power relationships affect the process dynamics. This paper engages with the theoretical claims for active involvement and uses a Scottish case study to illustrate to what extent these claims were met during a river basin planning process. The evaluation highlights lessons for policy makers designing river basin management plans, particularly in the context of the pressing timetable for the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive. These lessons include how to maximise these benefits whilst proactively managing conflicts that occur, particularly when trying to sustain a coalition of individuals representing broader organisations and constituencies in a time-consuming and challenging process.

scholarly journals Watershed management with special emphasis on fresh water wetland: a case study of a flood plain wetland in west Bengal, India

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Keyword(s):  
Flood Control ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Flood Plain ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Aquatic Productivity ◽  
Control Water ◽  
Wetland Use

The last few decades we have witnessed an enormous rise in awareness of the importance of wetlands. Mathura beel1 has been assumed to take the attention in recent years because of its ecological significance in terms of flood control, water purification, aquatic productivity, and microclimatic regulation etc. The aim of this paper is to present a complete scenario of Mathura beel through different analyses. To materialize the main objective, the water quality monitoring, socioeconomic analyses, and a perception study on wetland use and wetland threat are considered separately. In this study, the objective was extended to observe the complete socio-economic status, and a detailed perceptional study on wetland use, and wetland threat. At the end of the study, detailed management options have been given to protect and to conserve the economy and the ecosystem of Mathura beel.

The Contention between Han “Civilizers” and Yi “Civilizees” over Environmental Governance: A Case Study of Liangshan Prefecture in Sichuan

2014 ◽  
Vol 219 ◽  
pp. 736-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Heberer
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Central State ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
Policy Field ◽  
Power Concept ◽  
Minority Area

AbstractDuring field research on environmental governance in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in 2012, the author studied the Chinese state's efforts to promote its agenda and “civilizing mission,” the resistance of local Yi people to both, and the resulting clash of discourses on environmental protection. To understand the nature and mechanisms involved in this conflict, the author focuses on the state's “civilizing mission” in light of Foucault's power concept. The article examines two issues: 1) the strategies by which the central state exerts power and asserts its policies in a minority area, i.e. how it attempts to steer the behaviour of local cadres in order to implement its modernization concept, and 2) whether and to what degree it makes a difference that the researched area is a “minority” (Yi) area. To answer these questions, one county in the prefecture was taken as a case study. Furthermore, this article continuously refers to the policy field of environmental governance to substantiate the thesis of a civilizing project conducted by the centre.

Quantitative assessment of improvements in hydrological water cycle in urbanized river basin

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 219-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Imbe ◽  
T. Ohta ◽  
N. Takano
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Water Discharge ◽  
Evaluation Procedure ◽  
Land Utilization ◽  
Domestic Waste ◽  
Surface Areas

Urbanization generally causes expansion of urban areas, improvement of lifestyles, high population density and high levels of land utilization. Those urbanization processes have resulted in an expansion of impermeable areas such as roofs and pavements, an increase in water demand, an increase in industrial and domestic waste water and a reduction of water surface areas and green lands. The above-mentioned phenomena tend to distort the appropriate hydrological water cycle and derive the six issues to be solved which were pointed out in our previous paper Imbe et al.(1995). Six issues were described as: 1) Maintenance of Ordinary Water Discharge; 2) Flood Control; 3) Conservation and Development of Water Resources; 4) Conservation and Revival of Ecological System; 5) Pollution Control; 6) Improvement of Heat Environment. In order to prevent the deterioration of the hydrological water cycle, many relevant measures are taken into account and the effect of those measures should be evaluated before the implementation. This paper presents a practical example of the evaluation procedure through a case study of the actual urbanized river basin called Azuma River.

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