Participatory Water ...
Published by Claudia Casarotto, Innovations for Poverty Action - Deputy Country Director - Kenya
Participatory Water Management
Dear Thomas,
participation is one of the pillars of integrated water resources management and it gets particularly crucial when it comes to transboundary management. There is a plethora of case studies on dialogue and participation in shared water bodies. I won’t suggest you an exhaustive literature review, but I would like to suggest you some selected studies that, in my view, provide excellent examples of participation in water management:
- Beall, et al., 2011. Sustainable Water Resource Management and Participatory System Dynamics. Case Study: Developing the Palouse Basin Participatory Model. Sustainability, 3, 720-742.
- SIWI, 2009. Getting Transboundary Water Right: Theory and Practice for Effective Cooperation (http://bit.ly/NcUlkM)
- Soncini-Sessa, Weber, Castelletti, 2007. Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Management – Theory.
- Soncini-Sessa, Cellina, et al. 2007. Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Managment - Practice.
- Ferreyra, C. and P. Beard 2007. "Participatory Evaluation of Collaborative and Integrated Water Management: Insights from the Field." Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 502: 271-296.
I hope this can give you a good overview!
Claudia