Social Participation in Water Governance and Management

by Berry, Kate A.; Mollard, Eric

• ISBN13: 9781844078851
• ISBN10: 184407885X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Social participation in water management and governance recently became a reality in many economies and societies. Yet the dimensions in which power regulation, social equity and democracy-building are connected with participation have been only tangentially analyzed for the water sector. Understanding the growing interest in social participation involves appreciating the specificity of the contemporary period within its historic and geographic contexts as well as uncovering larger political, economic and cultural trends of recent decades which frame participatory actions. Within a wide variety of cases presented from around the world, the reader will find critical analyses of participation and an array of political ecological processes that influence water governance. Sixteen chapters from a diverse group of scholars and practitioners examine water rights definition, hydropower dam construction, urban river renewal, irrigation organizations, water development NGOs, river basin management, water policy implementation and judicial decision-making in water conflicts. Yet there are commonalities in participatory experiences across this spectrum of water issues. The book's five sections highlight key dimensions of contemporary water management that influence, and in turn are influenced by, social participation. These sections are: participation and indigenous water governance; participation and the dynamics of gender in water management; participation and river basin governance; participation and implementation of water management and participation and the politics of water governance.

Author Biography

Kate Berry is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Eric Mollard is Research Program Director at the Socio-Environmental Dynamics and Resource Governance Research Unit, French Research Institute for Development (IRD) in Montpellier.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	p. ix
List of contributors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
List of abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction: Social Participation in Water Governance and Management	p. xx
Participation and Indigenous Water Governance
Participation of the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe in Land and Water Resource Management Decisions in Death Valley National Park, California and Nevada, US	p. 3
For Whom the Turbines Turn: Indigenous Citizens as Legitimate Stakeholders in the Brazilian Amazon	p. 23
Participation and the Dynamics of Gender in Water Management
Gender and Social Participation in a Rural Water Supply Organization in Rajasthan, India	p. 47
Gendered Dynamics of Participation in Water Management in Nepal and Peru: Revisiting the Linkages between Membership and Power	p. 69
Participation and River Basin Governance
Social Participation in French Water Management: Contributions to River Basin Governance and New Challenges	p. 95
Social Participation in Mexican River Basin Organizations: The Resilience of Coalitions	p. 115
From a Participative Framework to Communities' Realities: The Challenges of Implementing Stakeholder Involvement in Quebec Watershed Management, Canada	p. 137
Participation and Implementation of Water Management
Social Participation in the Irrigation Sector in Yunnan, China: Roles of the State, User Associations, and Communities	p. 163
Participation in Water Resource and Services Governance in South Africa: Caught in the Acts	p. 183
The Role of Locally Managed Water Aid: Effective Partnerships in Sri Lanka	p. 201
The Public's Role as a Stakeholder in the Yarqon River Authority, Israel	p. 219
Participation and the Politics of Governance
Water Rights and Rule-Making Justice as Fruits of Social Struggle in the Ecuadorian Andes	p. 243
Water Management Practices on Trial: The Tribunal Latinoamericano del Agua and the Creation of Public Space for Social Participation in Water Politics	p. 265
The Local Application of Global Sustainable and Participatory Development Norms in Turkish Dams	p. 289
Conclusions: Politicizing Social Participation	p. 309
Index	p. 319
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