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Chapter 1 Introduction and Refl ections
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Karar, Eiman |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | This book explores the challenges most countries face in dealing with governance issues and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to achieve effective freshwater governance for the twenty-fi rst century. The idea for writing this book was triggered by the successful hosting of the International Conference on Fresh Water Governance for Sustainable Development, 5–7 November 2012, at the Champagne Sports Resort, Drakensberg, KZN, South Africa. At that conference, the need to bring together the research communities from different disciplines and practitioners at different levels of jurisdictions from around the world was tangible. The exchange of experiences and the interrogation of frameworks, policies and perceptions around best practice were invigorating. This book is not a direct result of that conference, but the exchange of experiences provided the impetus to embark on this undertaking. The intention of this book is to pool some salient ideas around the thinking of water and its governance, tackling it from a global view to a local reality, from within and outside the numerous watersheds that fall under various administrative agencies to end users, the private sector and civil society. It can also identify sovereign boundaries and regional or transnational boundaries. As fl uid as water is, so is the concept of its governance. A striking feature is that the term “governance” means different things to different people. The aim of this volume is not to provide a universal defi nition of governance; instead, each chapter will frame its own meaning in the context of the specifi c topic covered. But fi rst, one might ask why freshwater governance is of such importance and what is so special about the twenty-fi rst century governance to warrant writing a book about it. In his closing address at the Fresh Water Governance Conference on 7 November 2012, the CEO of the WRC , Dhesigen Naidoo , highlighted the fact that the global |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
