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(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5155 Record No: H024461)
2 Dombrowsky, I.. 2010. Benefit-sharing in transboundary water management through intra-water sector issue linkage? In Lundqvist, J. (Ed.). On the water front: selections from the 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). pp.25-31.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043358)
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Benefit-sharing has been advanced as a strategy to promote cooperation on transboundary rivers. However, the conceptual underpinning of benefit-sharing remains sparse. This paper analyzes whether issue linkages within the water sector can be understood as a form of benefitsharing. The paper introduces two types of linkages: (1) of water uses with effects in reverse directions and (2) of water uses with upstream–downstream effects in river basins in which riparians hold reverse positions. It argues that whenever opportunities for these linkages exist, they may indeed contribute towards benefit-sharing. In particular, the type 2 linkage may be conducive towards the resolution of negative externality problems.
3 Dombrowsky, I.. 2008. Integration in the management of international waters: economic perspectives on a global policy discourse. Global Governance, 14(4):455-477.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 8137 Record No: H045801)
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In recent years an emergent global policy discourse has promoted the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) as a strategy for the sustainable management of international waters. However, integration remains a considerable challenge in large international river basins. This article addresses the relevance of the global discourse on IWRM, asking how much integration can be expected and how much integration is desirable in international water management. The article presents a novel compilation of eighty-six international river basin organizations and examines their degree of integration in terms of three dimensions: membership, substantive scope, and form. More particularly, the article examines the integration problem from an economic perspective, asking whether integration serves the self-interest of the respective riparian states. The empirical evidence highlights the difficulties of integration, as the majority of international river basin organizations remain narrow in membership and scope. Economic considerations suggest that voluntary cooperation in river basins is institutionally demanding and that the degree of integration depends on the problem at hand. Hence, the challenge for international waters management is to search for the economically desirable degree of integration in each case.
4 Pahl-Wostl, C.; Knieper, C.; Lukat, E.; Meergans, F.; Schoderer, M.; Schutze, N.; Schweigatz, D.; Dombrowsky, I.; Lenschow, A.; Stein, U.; Thiel, A.; Troltzsch, J.; Vidaurre, R. 2020. Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges: a framework of analysis. Environmental Science and Policy, 107:23-35. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.02.011]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049674)
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Despite numerous efforts to promote and implement more integrated approaches, coordination problems persist and impede sustainable water governance and management. This paper introduces a framework for guiding a transdisciplinary diagnostic approach (i.e. a context-sensitive assessment of multi-level water governance, which is combined with a change management process) to address such coordination problems. The approach aims at addressing some of the challenges identified in scientific scholarship and water governance practice by combining context-specific participatory assessments of individual cases with comparative case analysis guided by a generic conceptual framework. The focus is on implementation processes at regional and local scale and their embedding in a multi-level water governance system and a specific environmental and societal context.
A coherent approach and formalized representation across individual cases is essential to develop cumulative knowledge and to improve the diagnostic strength of the approach. Based on a broad literature review and exploratory study of multiple, diverse cases conceptual framework identifies a variety of factors that are expected to be important for understanding the performance of environmental governance and management systems. The paper makes explicit the hypotheses on relationships between core variables that resulted from framework development. The framework, including the collection of hypotheses, offers a structured approach for analysing a phenomenon as complex and multi-facetted as coordination. It allows identification of multiple pathways that may lead an improvement or a decline in performance, respectively. The framework can find more widespread application in supporting comparative case study analyses with a focus on improving the understanding of policy implementation also beyond the field of water governance and management.
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