Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management: An Integrated Approach to River Basin Management

✍ Scribed by Geoffrey Gooch, Per Stalnacke

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 203
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

One of the major problems facing practitioners and scientists working with water management is how to integrate knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives. In this book this science-policy-stakeholder interface (SPSI) is examined both analytically and through the description of practical experiences from river basins in Europe, India and South-East Asia. These include the Tungabhadra (India), Sesan (Vietnam/Cambodia), Tagus (Spain/Portugal) and Glomma (Norway), which particularly highlight issues associated with pollution, severely altered river flows and transboundary conflicts. Following two chapters which lay the framework for the book, the authors describe how SPSI was managed in the case study basins and how stakeholder participation and scenarios were used to integrate different perspectives, and to facilitate the communication of different forms of knowledge. Four important aspects of water management and SPSI are then discussed; these are water pollution, land and water interaction, environmental flow and transboundary water regimes. Short descriptions of the case study rivers are provided together with analyses of how SPSI was managed in water management in these basins and policy recommendations for the basins. The book concludes by providing a series of recommendations for improving the science-policy-stakeholder interface in water management. It represents a major step forward in our understanding of how to implement integrated water resources management.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 4
List of Figures and Tables......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 14
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 16
Introduction......Page 20
What is science in the science–policy–stakeholder interface?......Page 23
What is policy in the science–policy–stakeholder interface?......Page 24
Who are the stakeholders in the science–policy–stakeholder interface?......Page 25
Our case basins......Page 26
References......Page 33
Integration as a key challenge in sustainable water management......Page 36
Interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and sustainability science......Page 37
Integration and the science–policy–stakeholder interface......Page 39
Experiences of inter/transdisciplinarity in the STRIVER project......Page 41
Lessons learned......Page 45
References......Page 46
Introduction......Page 48
Participation: Defining terms......Page 50
Legal platform for facilitating stakeholder participation in the SPSI......Page 53
International and public policy, participation and the SPSI......Page 54
The political and cultural context for stakeholder participation......Page 55
What methods and tools can be used to facilitate interaction within the SPSI context?......Page 57
Stakeholder identification and inclusion within case study basins......Page 63
References......Page 65
Introduction......Page 70
Science–policy interface......Page 72
Scenarios in the science–policy interface......Page 73
Actor networks in water management scenarios......Page 75
Legal and institutional aspects of the scenarios......Page 76
Interactive participatory scenarios as a policy tool......Page 77
Recommendations for the use of scenarios as a tool to involve stakeholders and the public......Page 81
References......Page 82
Participatory watershed modelling: A tool for integration......Page 86
Phase I: Watershed modelling and data availability......Page 88
Phase II: Scenario development and analysis......Page 94
Lessons learned in the STRIVER experience......Page 98
References......Page 100
Understanding land- and water-use interaction......Page 102
Land-use changes......Page 103
Problems in land and water use......Page 104
Methodology......Page 108
SPSI in land- and water-use evaluations in the Tagus and Tungabhadra......Page 109
Participation in land and water management......Page 111
Stakeholder access to information and decision-making......Page 114
Conclusions......Page 120
References......Page 121
Introduction......Page 124
Review of environmental fl ow methods......Page 125
The Glomma: Hydropower regulation and the application of environmental fl ow......Page 126
The PIMCEFA method for environmental flow assessment......Page 128
SPSI in environmental flow assessment......Page 136
Lessons learned and practical recommendations......Page 137
References......Page 140
Introduction......Page 142
Law and transboundary water regimes......Page 143
Actor networks in transboundary regimes......Page 146
Communication in transboundary regimes......Page 148
Law in transboundary regimes......Page 150
Law in the Sesan and Tagus rivers......Page 151
Scenarios as a policy tool in transboundary water regimes......Page 154
References......Page 156
Introduction......Page 160
SPSI in the case basins......Page 161
Recommendations for improving the SPSI in water management......Page 166
Conclusions: SPSI in water management......Page 173
References......Page 174
Index......Page 176