Multi-stakeholder platforms for integrated water management

Resource Information

The work Multi-stakeholder platforms for integrated water management represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Multi-stakeholder platforms for integrated water management

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jeroen Warner

Contributor

• Warner, Jeroen
• Warner, Jeroen

Subject

• Environmental policy
• Integrated water development
• Sustainable development
• Water-supply -- Management
• Water-supply -- Management | International cooperation

Language

eng

Summary

As they provide a negotiating space for a diversity of interests, Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) are an increasingly popular mode of involving civil society in resource management decisions. This book focuses on water management to take a positive, if critical, look at this phenomenon. Illustrated by a wide geographical range of case studies from both developed and developing worlds, it recognizes that MSPs will neither automatically break down divides nor bring actors to the table on an equal footing, and argues that MSPs may in some cases do more harm than good. The volume then examines how MSPs can make a difference and how they might successfully co-opt the public, private and civil-society sectors. The book highlights the particular difficulties of MSPs when dealing with integrated water management programmes, explaining how MSPs are most successful at a less complex and more local level. It finally questions whether MSPs are - or can be - sustainable, and puts forward suggestions for improving their durability

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

TD353

LC item number

.M83 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Ashgate studies in environmental policy and practice