86
Technical solutions for water issues rely on political and institutional designs,
which encourage individuals and personal networks to work in favor of them. No
great technology – not even one which is well engineered – can fulfi ll its purposes
satisfactorily if it is not supported and sustained by people and institutions. A systemic view helps to understand the interrelatedness of ecological needs, patterns of
behavior, political and regulatory institutions, historical legacies, and economic and
technological features. The governance perspective points to the necessity to create
regulatory means which can address the complexity of motives both of individuals
and collectives. Institutional thinking underlines the fact that immaterial rules and
norms eventually materialize .
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Peter Lang, Bern/Berlin/Bruxelles
Bakker K (2010) Privatizing water. Governance failure and world’s urban water crisis. Cornell
University Press, Ithaca
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Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden
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Weltwirtschaft – Herausforderungen und Antworten. Leske + Budrich, Opladen
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Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main
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Stockholm
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Umwelt und Entwicklung. Eggenkamp Verlag, Greven
Hill W, Fehlbaum R, Ulrich P (1994) Organisationslehre 1: Ziele, Instrumente und Bedingungen
der Organisation sozialer Systeme, 5th edn. UTP, Stuttgart
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
Noncommercial License, which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
P. Dobner and H.-G. Frede
Technical solutions for water issues rely on political and institutional designs,
which encourage individuals and personal networks to work in favor of them. No
great technology – not even one which is well engineered – can fulfi ll its purposes
satisfactorily if it is not supported and sustained by people and institutions. A systemic view helps to understand the interrelatedness of ecological needs, patterns of
behavior, political and regulatory institutions, historical legacies, and economic and
technological features. The governance perspective points to the necessity to create
regulatory means which can address the complexity of motives both of individuals
and collectives. Institutional thinking underlines the fact that immaterial rules and
norms eventually materialize .
References
Anne I (2012) Water governance – challenges in Africa. Hydro-optimism or hydro-pessimism?
Peter Lang, Bern/Berlin/Bruxelles
Bakker K (2010) Privatizing water. Governance failure and world’s urban water crisis. Cornell
University Press, Ithaca
Benz A (ed) (2004) Governance – Regieren in komplexen Regelsystemen. Eine Einführung. VS
Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden
Brand U, Scherrer C (2003) Contested global governance. Konkurrierende Formen und Inhalte
globaler Regulierung. Kurswechsel, Zeitschrift für gesellschafts-, wirtschafts-, und umweltpolitische Alternativen 1:90–103
Brand U, Brunnengräber A, Schrader L et al (2000) Global governance. Alternative zur neoliberalen Globalisierung. Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster
Bundestag D (ed) (2002) Schlussbericht der Enquete-Kommission. Globalisierung der
Weltwirtschaft – Herausforderungen und Antworten. Leske + Budrich, Opladen
Dietz T, Ostrom E, Stern PC (2003) The struggle to govern the commons. Science 302:1907–1912.
doi: 10.1126/science.1091015
Dingwerth K (2003) Globale Politiknetzwerke und ihre demokratische Legitimation: Analyse der
World Commission on Dams. Global Governance Working Paper No. 6. www.glogov.org .
Accessed 10 Apr 2015
Dobner P (2010) Wasserpolitik: Zur politischen Theorie, Praxis und Kritik globaler Governance.
Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main
Easton D (1957) An approach to the analysis of political systems. World Polit 9:383–400.
doi: 10.2307/2008920
Easton D (1965) A systems analysis of political life. Wiley, New York
Folke-Schuppert G (2006) Governance-Forschung. Vergewisserung über Stand und
Entwickungslinien, 2nd edn. Nomos, Baden-Baden
GWP (2003) Effective water governance: learning from the dialogues. Global Water Partnership,
Stockholm
Hauff V (1987) Unsere gemeinsame Zukunft: Der Brundtland-Bericht der Weltkommission für
Umwelt und Entwicklung. Eggenkamp Verlag, Greven
Hill W, Fehlbaum R, Ulrich P (1994) Organisationslehre 1: Ziele, Instrumente und Bedingungen
der Organisation sozialer Systeme, 5th edn. UTP, Stuttgart
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
Noncommercial License, which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
P. Dobner and H.-G. Frede