Creating institutional arrangements for managing water-scarce river basins: emerging research results

Because of increasing water scarcity in developing countries, poor people are suffering greatly from ?water deprivation.? One approach to improving water resources management is to develop river basin management institutions. This paper contrasts government-dominated approaches to forming such insti...

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Main Author: Merrey, Douglas J.
Format: Conference Paper
Language:Inglés
Published: 2000
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/37901
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description Because of increasing water scarcity in developing countries, poor people are suffering greatly from ?water deprivation.? One approach to improving water resources management is to develop river basin management institutions. This paper contrasts government-dominated approaches to forming such institutions with attempts to create stakeholder-based institutions. Two cases of the latter, in Mexico and South Africa, are compared to extract lessons for other countries.
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spelling CGSpace379012025-11-07T08:37:27Z Creating institutional arrangements for managing water-scarce river basins: emerging research results Merrey, Douglas J. water scarcity river basins institutional development developing countries water shortage water supply case studies water pollution legislation water policy research institutes Because of increasing water scarcity in developing countries, poor people are suffering greatly from ?water deprivation.? One approach to improving water resources management is to develop river basin management institutions. This paper contrasts government-dominated approaches to forming such institutions with attempts to create stakeholder-based institutions. Two cases of the latter, in Mexico and South Africa, are compared to extract lessons for other countries. 2000 2014-06-13T11:40:18Z 2014-06-13T11:40:18Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/37901 en Open Access application/pdf Merrey, D. J. 2000. Creating institutional arrangements for managing water-scarce river basins: emerging research results. Paper prepared for presentation at session on "Enough Water for All", at the Global Dialogue on "The Role of the Village in the 21st Century: Crops, Jobs, Livelihood, at EXPO 2000, Hannover, Germany, 15-17 August , 2000. 12p.
spellingShingle water scarcity
river basins
institutional development
developing countries
water shortage
water supply
case studies
water pollution
legislation
water policy
research institutes
Merrey, Douglas J.
Creating institutional arrangements for managing water-scarce river basins: emerging research results
title Creating institutional arrangements for managing water-scarce river basins: emerging research results
title_full Creating institutional arrangements for managing water-scarce river basins: emerging research results
title_fullStr Creating institutional arrangements for managing water-scarce river basins: emerging research results
title_full_unstemmed Creating institutional arrangements for managing water-scarce river basins: emerging research results
title_short Creating institutional arrangements for managing water-scarce river basins: emerging research results
title_sort creating institutional arrangements for managing water scarce river basins emerging research results
topic water scarcity
river basins
institutional development
developing countries
water shortage
water supply
case studies
water pollution
legislation
water policy
research institutes
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