Social participation in water governance and management : critical and global perspectives /
"Social participation in water management and governance recently became a reality in many economies and societies. Yet the dimensions in which power regulation, social equity and democracy-building are connected with participation have been only tangentially analyzed for the water sector. Unde...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Social participation in water management and governance
- PART I. PARTICIPATION AND INDIGENOUS WATER GOVERNANCE: Participation of the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe in land and water management decisions in Death Valley National Park, California and Nevada, U.S.
- For whom the turbines turn: indigenous citizens as legitimate stakeholders in the Brazilian Amazon
- PART II. PARTICIPATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF GENDER IN WATER MANAGEMENT: Gender and social participation in a rural water-supply organization in Rajasthan, India
- Gendered dynamics of participation in water management in Nepal and Peru: revisiting the linkages between membership and power
- PART III. PARTICIPATION AND RIVER BASIN GOVERNANCE: Social participation in French water management: contributions to river basin governance and new challenges
- Social participation in Mexican river basin organizations: the resilience of coalitions
- From a participative framework to communities' realities: the challenges of implementing stakeholder involvement in Quebec watershed management, Canada
- PART IV. PARTICIPATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF WATER MANAGEMENT: Social participation in the irrigation sector in Yunnan, China: roles of the state, user associations, and communities
- Participation in water resource and service governance in South Africa: caught in the acts
- The role of locally-managed water aid: effective partnerships in Sri Lanka
- The public's role as stakeholder in the Yarqon River Authority, Israel
- PART V. PARTICIPATION AND THE POLITICS OF GOVERNANCE: Water rights and rule-making justice as fruits of social struggle in the Ecuadorian Andes
- Water management practices on trial: the Tribunal Latinoameicano del Agua and the creation of public space for social participation in water politics
- The local application of global sustainable and participatory development norms in Turkish dams
- Conclusions: politicizing social participation.
