Contested governance of drinking water provisioning services in Nepal’s transboundary river basins
Autor: | John FitzGibbon, Laxmi Prasad Pant, Kiran Kumari Bhattarai |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Global and Planetary Change
GE Ecology Corporate governance media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies Stakeholder 021107 urban & regional planning Provisioning 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Ecosystem services Adversarial system Collaborative governance Business Source water protection Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation Diversity (politics) media_common |
Zdroj: | Ecosystem Services. 45:101184 |
ISSN: | 2212-0416 |
Popis: | Governance and management of ecosystem services involve a diversity of institutional mechanisms and policy processes from voluntary to regulatory and collaborative approaches. The governance structures and policy processes are often contested, particularly when stakeholder concerns are insufficiently addressed, particularly of those who are most affected by policy decisions. This research examines how collaborative governance enables the ecosystem services approach to source water protection, thereby addressing contested governance problems and policy processes in transboundary river basins in central Nepal. The data were collected using key informant interviews, policy workshops, policy document review, and direct observation. Research results suggest that the state established collaborative governance institutions to improve already adversarial situations rather than in the co-management of water provisioning and other ecosystem services. We conclude that collaborative governance should focus on empowering vulnerable communities to speak for themselves and for the natural environment, particularly to maintain the sustainable flow of multiple ecosystem services for current and future generations. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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