Creating Cooperation through Boundary Spanning in Water Management

Planners have long understood the need to be across multiple disciplines, areas of expertise, knowledge and practices. In a new book published by IWA publishing entitled "Governance and Complexity in Water Management: Creating Cooperation through Boundary Spanning Strategies", the editors bring together a range of researchers and practitioners to outline the concept of boundary spanning, and how it can be better harnessed to improve processes of adaptive management.

Overview

Careful reconsideration of strategies to achieve water management ambitions, together with a more in-depth knowledge of the theories and practices of boundary spanning, could bring solutions for contemporary water problems within reach. Governance and Complexity in Water Management incorporates conceptual, theoretical and practical foci on dealing with complexity and conflict by boundary spanning in adaptive water management. Guidance for boundary spanning in practice is presented, and important contemporary water management themes including flooding and flood policy, water depletion and water restoration are discussed in detail. This is the first book to describe, analyze and prescribe water transitions through a boundary perspective. This book provides an unique combination of theory, application, and analysis. It will be a valuable book for water professionals, policy scientists, students, and scholars in natural resource management and especially water management.

Details

Governance and Complexity in Water Management: Creating Cooperation through Boundary Spanning Strategies. Editor(s): Hans Bressers and Kris Lulofs. Publication Date: 01 Mar 2010. Pages: 224 • Hardback. Click here to find out more or to purchase a copy of this book.

Contents

1. nnovations in Water Management Requiring Boundary Spanning: Roots and Concepts - Kris Lulofs and Hans Bressers
   
2. Analysis of Boundary Judgments in Complex Interaction Processes - Hans Bressers and Kris Lulofs
   
3. A Boundary Perspective on Flood Management in the Netherlands - Wim van Leussen
   
4. The Temporal Dimensions of Boundary Judgments - Aysun Özen Tacer
   
5. Space for Water and Boundary Spanning Governance - Hans Bressers, Simone Hanegraaff and Kris Lulofs
   
6. Building a New River and Boundary Spanning Governance - Hans Bressers, Simone Hanegraaff and Kris Lulofs
   
7. The Dutch Land-use Re-ordering Process as a Multi-stakeholder Management Strategy - Katharine Owens
   
8. Linking Natural Science Based Knowledge to Governance Strategy: A Case of Regional Water Depletion Analyzed - Mirjam van Tilburg
   
9. Rethinking Boundaries in Implementation Processes - Jaap G. Evers
   
10. Guidance Schemes for the Boundary Spanner - Jan van der Molen and Kris Lulofs
    
11. Conclusions - Hans Bressers and Kris Lulofs