Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict (RFF Press) - John T. Scholz, Bruce Stiftel
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Water policy seems in perpetual crisis. Increasingly, conflicts extend beyond the statutory authority, competence, geographical jurisdictions, and political constituencies of highly specialized governing authorities. While other books address specific policy approaches or the application of adaptive management strategies to specific problems, this is the first book to focus more broadly on adaptive governance, or the evolution of new institutions that attempt to resolve conflicts among competing authorities. Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict investigates new types of water conflicts among users in the seemingly water-rich Eastern United States. Eight case studies of water quality, water quantity, and habitat preservation or restoration in Florida were chosen to span the range of conflicts crossing fragmented regulatory boundaries. Each begins with a history of the conflict and then focuses on the innovative institutional arrangements - some successful, some not - that evolved to grapple with the resultin...
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(XIII) 274 p. Paperback (In good condition.) Washington, Resources for the Future 2005 [Auteur: Scholz, John T./Stiftel, Bruce] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict. New Institutions for Collaborative Planning]
