The Multi-governance Of Water

Description

"As the governance of transboundary rivers become a subject of growing importance due to the increasing pressure on freshwater resources, this timely collection examines water scarcity and efforts to better manage rivers and river basins. Most specialists agree that states face many institutional inadequacies when dealing with shared resources and that new governance mechanisms are needed to improve water management. Using case studies of the Aral Sea basin and the Danube, Euphrates, and Mekong river basins, the contributors develop a new approach to water governance: the concept of multi-governance, an effort to collectively solve public problems by involving a series of relevant actors from the local to the global level, such as institutions, states, civil society, and business."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Governance-as opposed to government-defines the phenomenon of societal problems (in our case water) appearing to be too interlinked, too complex, but also too overwhelming for any single nation-state to address them alone.

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Other Editions

• The Multi-governance Of Water: Four Case Studies (Suny Series in Global Politics)HardcoverState University of New York Press2005-11-03
• Multi-Governance of WaterState University of New York Press2005-01-01
• Multi-governance of WaterState University of New York Press2006-01-01