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1 Saravanan.V. S.; McDonald, G. T.; Mollinga, P. P. 2008. Critical review of integrated water resources management: moving beyond polarised discourse. Bonn, Germany: Center for Development Research. 21p. (ZEF Working Paper Series 29)
Water resource management ; Participatory management ; Consumer participation ; Water users ; Water policy
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H041353)
http://www.zef.de/fileadmin/webfiles/downloads/zef_wp/WP_29_Saravanan__McDonald__Mollinga.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041353.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041353.pdf
IWRM has emerged as a popular ideology in the water sector since the 20th century. From a highly techno-centric approach in the past, it has taken a new turn worldwide, following a Habermasian communicative rationality, as a place-based nexus for multiple actors to consensually and communicatively take decisions in a hydrological unit. This communicative practice expects to be consensual, stable and static in integration of water management. This how IWRM should be approach had a remarkable appeal worldwide as promoting authentic participation of all stakeholders in integrating water management. Its Foucauldian critiques argue how IWRM cannot be achieved given the power dynamics in social interactions. The critiques reveal that the domain of water resources management is a discursive terrain of collective action, contestation and negotiation, making water management a socio- political process, where there are multiple forms and meanings of integration. The emphasis is on complexities, contextuality, power dynamics and importance of analysing real world situations, but without proposing any concrete actions. These apparently contradictory discourses depict a polarised world of water management, without offering any insights for future water resource management. On one hand, the Habermasian communicative practice emphasises on ‘ideal speech situations’, in which no affected party is excluded from discourse or by asymmetries of power for collective decisions. On the other hand, the Foucauldian theory argues for analysing the real world situation of integration and the power dynamics. A prospective option to further the integration of water resource management is to consider these apparently contradictory discourses as interdependent by examining how integration actually does take place in a strategic context, notwithstanding the absence of Habermasian conditions and the presence of Foucauldian relations of power.
2 Butterworth, J. A.; Sutherland, A.; Manning, N.; Darteh, B.; Dziegielewska-Geitz, M.; Eckart, J.; Batchelor, C.; Moriarty, P.; Schouten, T.; Da Silva, C.; Verhagen, J.; Bury, P. J. 2008. Building more effective partnerships for innovation in urban water management. Paper presented at International Conference on Water and Urban Development Paradigms: Towards an Integration of Engineering, Design and Management Approaches, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 15 - 19 September 2008. 13p.
Water supply ; Water management ; Participatory approaches ; Consumer participation ; Stakeholders ; Towns ; Developing countries
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 363.61 G000 BUT Record No: H041561)
http://www.switchurbanwater.eu/outputs/pdfs/WP6-2_PAP_Effective_partnerships_in_UWM_abridged.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041561.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041561.pdf
3 Senanayake, Dehaja; Reitemeier, Maren; Thiel, Felix; Drechsel, Pay. 2021. Business models for urban food waste prevention, redistribution, recovery and recycling. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 85p. (Resource Recovery and Reuse Series 19) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2021.208]
Resource recovery ; Resource management ; Reuse ; Food wastes ; Business models ; Waste management ; Urban wastes ; Waste reduction ; Redistribution ; Recycling ; Food consumption ; Food losses ; Waste collection ; Food supply chains ; Stakeholders ; Entrepreneurs ; Public-private partnerships ; Markets ; Incentives ; Energy recovery ; Nutrients ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Goal 12 Responsible production and consumption ; Environmental impact ; Food preservation ; Composting ; Feeds ; Regulations ; Policies ; Awareness raising ; Consumer participation ; Costs
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H050448)
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A necessary extension of the concept of Resource Recovery and Reuse with an even higher priority is the prevention and reduction of waste. One concern, in particular, is food waste, which constitutes the largest share of human waste. Target 12.3 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to ‘halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030’. For this report, over 400 businesses were analyzed to identify common approaches and business models to address the food waste challenge. The business models are presented under seven categories – measurement, redistribution, resell, value addition, responsible waste collection, resource recovery, and recycling – with a special focus on their application potential to the Global South.
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