This book series aims at providing a platform for developing an integrated
perspective on major advances in the field of water governance. Contributions will
build bridges across established fields of expertise, across disciplinary perspectives,
across levels from global to local and across geographical regions. Topics to be
covered include conceptual and methodological advances capturing the complexity
of water governance systems, institutional settings, actor constellations, diagnostic
approaches, and comparative studies of governance systems. The book series
encompasses monographs, textbooks and edited, coordinated volumes addressing
one theme from different perspectives. The book series will address mainly a wider
scientific audience, but will also provide valuable knowledge to interested
practitioners. The sustainable management of fresh water resources and the
ecosystem services that they provide is one of the key challenges of the 21st
century. Many water related problems can be attributed to governance failure at
multiple levels of governance rather than to the resource base itself. At the same
time our knowledge on water governance systems and conditions for success of
water governance reform is still quite limited. The notion of water governance aims
at capturing the complexity of processes that determine the delivery of water related
services for societal needs and that provide the context within which water
management operates. Water governance is a fast growing field of scholarly
expertise which has largely developed over the past decade. The number of
publications in peer reviewed journals has increased from less than 20 in the year
2000 to nearly 400 in the year 2013. The increasing popularity of the term in
science and policy has not lead to conceptual convergence but rather to an
increasing vagueness and competing interpretations of how the concept should be
understood, studied, and analyzed; which disciplines are involved; and what
methodological approaches are most suitable for the study and analysis of water
governance. The time seems to be ripe for comprehensive synthesis and integration.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13400
perspective on major advances in the field of water governance. Contributions will
build bridges across established fields of expertise, across disciplinary perspectives,
across levels from global to local and across geographical regions. Topics to be
covered include conceptual and methodological advances capturing the complexity
of water governance systems, institutional settings, actor constellations, diagnostic
approaches, and comparative studies of governance systems. The book series
encompasses monographs, textbooks and edited, coordinated volumes addressing
one theme from different perspectives. The book series will address mainly a wider
scientific audience, but will also provide valuable knowledge to interested
practitioners. The sustainable management of fresh water resources and the
ecosystem services that they provide is one of the key challenges of the 21st
century. Many water related problems can be attributed to governance failure at
multiple levels of governance rather than to the resource base itself. At the same
time our knowledge on water governance systems and conditions for success of
water governance reform is still quite limited. The notion of water governance aims
at capturing the complexity of processes that determine the delivery of water related
services for societal needs and that provide the context within which water
management operates. Water governance is a fast growing field of scholarly
expertise which has largely developed over the past decade. The number of
publications in peer reviewed journals has increased from less than 20 in the year
2000 to nearly 400 in the year 2013. The increasing popularity of the term in
science and policy has not lead to conceptual convergence but rather to an
increasing vagueness and competing interpretations of how the concept should be
understood, studied, and analyzed; which disciplines are involved; and what
methodological approaches are most suitable for the study and analysis of water
governance. The time seems to be ripe for comprehensive synthesis and integration.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13400