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Citizen participation dilemmas in water governance: An empirical case of Kumasi, Ghana. [PDF]

open access: yesWorld Dev Perspect, 2020
Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie M   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Institutional and policy reforms in water sector in India: review of issues, concepts and trends [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper looks at the institutional and policy reforms in the context of sources and uses of water. Although the reform measures have been specific about surface water, there still is ambiguity on the groundwater situation in India.
Rout, S.
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Attitudes of political-administrative decision makers towards the implementation of nature-based solutions in water management – a case study on a hypothetical constructed wetland in the Tárcoles River basin

open access: yesEcosystems and People
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are actions that help communities address social-ecological challenges such as flooding and polluted groundwater. Nevertheless, research shows that in practice, NBS confront several barriers in planning and implementation ...
Franka Pätzke   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vernacular Knowledge and Water Management – Towards the Integration of Expert Science and Local Knowledge in Ontario, Canada

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2015
Complex environmental problems cannot be solved using expert science alone. Rather, these kinds of problems benefit from problem-solving processes that draw on 'vernacular' knowledge.
Hugh Simpson, Rob de Loë, Jean Andrey
doaj  

The impact of water supply variability on treaty cooperation between international bilateral river basin riparian states [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper assesses the impact of water supply variability on treaty cooperation between international bilateral river basin riparian states. Climate change is anticipated to change the variability of water supply, as well as its expected magnitude ...
Blankespoor, Brian   +3 more
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From experience to experiments in water management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Thirteen years after the beginning of the democratization process in South Africa, many radical socio-political and institutional transformations have taken place in the country. Unlike during the Apartheid era, natural resource management and governance,
Désolé, Mathieu   +5 more
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The power of pipes: Mapping urban water inequities through the material properties of networked water infrastructures - The case of Lilongwe, Malawi

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2018
Urban scholars have long proposed moving away from a conceptualisation of infrastructure as given and fixed material artefacts to replace it with one that makes it the very object of theorisation and explanation.
Sachin Tiwale   +2 more
doaj  

The cyclical trend of local public service governance: evidence from urban water management in Spain [PDF]

open access: yes
The level of public and private involvement in economic activity in societies has changed over time. One may talk about the existence of a cyclical trend in which the most important periods of public governance are replaced by periods in which private ...
Alberto Ruiz Villaverde   +2 more
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