Reforming Water Resources Policy
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9789251035061
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9789251035061
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lin Crase
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1849770166
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Resolving these problems is crucial for the future.
Author: United States. Presidential Advisory Committee on Water Resources Policy
Publisher:
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alejandro Omar Iza
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 2831710278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Effective water governance capacity is the foundation of efficient management of water resources. Water governance reform processes must work towards building capacity in a cohesive and articulated approach that links national policies, laws and institutions, within an enabling environment that allows for their implementation. This guide shows how national water reform processes can deliver good water governance, by focussing on the principles and practice of reform. RULE guides managers and decision makers on a journey which provides an overview of what makes good law, policy and institutions, and the steps needed to build a coherent and fully operational water governance structure.
Author: Bandaragoda, D. J.
Publisher: IWMI
Published: 2006-05-16
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 929090626X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Case studies were conducted in five selected Asian countries on their water policy reform initiatives. Of the five countries, China stands out as the country that has derived the most from on-going global efforts in promoting water sector institutional reforms and the concept of integrated water resources management (IWRM). China has emerged as the leader in adapting these concepts to suit the context of the country. Advanced stages of water development in many parts of the country and increased water shortages due to rapid economic development have prompted China to forge ahead in the search for institutional solutions to make the water sector more productive, and the management of water resources more sustainable. In the other selected countries, efforts to replicate the models of developed countries without much adaptation and due reference to their stages of development have generally failed. The dominance of irrigation within the water sector and the informality of the economy related to water in these countries seem to make the application of prescribed IWRM principles rather unfeasible. The lesson to be drawn from policy reviews of the five countries is that effective waterinstitutions are not static systems, but are adaptive and dynamic institutional developments compatible with the local context, particularly with the structure of the overall economy of the country and its water sector.
Author: Bryan Randolph Bruns
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0896297497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Rights to water are increasingly crucial and increasingly contested across theglobe. Urbanization, industrialization, environmental degradation, agriculturalintensification, rising per capita water use, increasing population, andother social, political, and economic transformations contribute to growing scarcity and demand for better management of water resources. In responding to these challenges, the world can draw on a rich heritage of institutions for regulating rights to water and resolving disputes, and a diversity of institutional arrangements that demonstrate great ingenuity in designing solutions to fit the conditions and priorities of various river basins. However, policy discussion in water management has often been impoverished by narrow polarization around a few idealized models of centrally integrated management or water commoditization, even though these comprise only a small and very incomplete subset of the institutional options available for effective management. The authors in this book expand the range of reflection and analysis of water rights reforms, offering insights aimed especially at those seeking practical pathways to improve equity, efficiency, and sustainability in access to water."
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1780401302
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Water policies around the world are in urgent need of reform. Despite improvements in some sectors and countries, progress on meeting national, regional and international goals for managing and securing access to water for all has been uneven. Rallying policymakers around a positive water reform agenda needs to be a high priority and calls for strong political commitment and leadership. This report on Meeting the Water Reform Challenge brings together key insights from recent OECD work and identifies the priority areas where governments need to focus their reform efforts. It calls for governments to focus on getting the basics of water policy right. Sustainable financing, effective governance, and coherence between water and sectoral policies are the building blocks of successful reform.
Author: Chennat Gopalakrishnan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2005-08-04
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 3540265678
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a global survey and assessment of the structure, evolution, and performance of water institutions – administration policies and regulatory practices – in regional, national, and international settings. The coverage includes analysis and discussion of the rationale for institutional innovations, based on case study findings; specific suggestions for sustainable institutional design; and recommendations for implementing institutional reforms.
Author: Barbara C. P. Koppen
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1845933273
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The lack of sufficient access to clean water is a common problem faced by communities, efforts to alleviate poverty and gender inequality and improve economic growth in developing countries. While reforms have been implemented to manage water resources, these have taken little notice of how people use and manage their water and have had limited effect at the ground level. On the other hand, regulations developed within communities are livelihood-oriented and provide incentives for collective action but they can also be hierarchal, enforcing power and gender inequalities. This book shows how bringing together the strengths of community-based laws rooted in user participation and the formalized legal systems of the public sector, water management regimes will be more able to reach their goals.