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| Title | Water Governance: policy, conflict and collaboration |
| Group | Water Systems and Global Change |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | A. Dewulf
R. Briesbroek R. Vignola B. van der Bolt K. Williams M. del Pozo W. Smolenaars |
| Examiner(s) | R. Vignola |
| Contact info | M del Pozo (maria.delpozogarcia@wur.nl) |
| Begin date | 2024/01/01 |
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| Description | Countries, regions, and cities across Europe and other parts of the world, are already adapting to climate change impacts by developing climate change adaptation policies, strategies, and implementing policy actions. These actions include creating new legislation, setting-up awareness campaigns, changing existing building codes, establishing new interdepartmental working groups, and investing in new infrastructure. However, there is little accumulated knowledge of what kind of adaptation policy and risk management strategies interventions work, where, and why. Such learning is, however, critically important to inform further policy design on adaptation actions and evaluate whether societies are making progress on adaptation in the water sector and connected issues (e.g. food production, ecosystem services, land use planning, etc.).
Managing water resources in an integrated way takes place in a governance context where many different actors try to influence decisions regarding the water system. Water governance is therefore characterized by a mix of collaboration, negotiation and conflict between a variety of interests, frames and institutions. PROJECTS Use case studies approaches and/or mixed methods to analyse stakeholders decision-making under uncertainties to characterize risk governance, and identify adaptation problems and/or solutions - Systematically capture climate change adaptation policy actions in the water sector across Europe and to evaluate their effectiveness. This includes: - Develop framework to evaluate what policy interventions work, where, and why; - Use systematic review and mapping methods to analyse the current state of the academic and policy literature; - Focus on one of several water related climate impacts risks: water quality, water availability (floods or droughts), or sea level rise) Other specific topics might include dealing with frame diversity, water conflict and negotiation. scale issues and transboundary collaboration in water governance. Topics might be developed in collaboration with Public Administration and Policy (PAP)Â chair group. Specific topics: -dealing with frame diversity -multi-stakeholder platforms -river basin authorities -water conflict and negotiation -scale issues in water governance -transboundary water governance -adaptive water governance -collaborative water governance Regions -Latin America (Ecuador, Peru) -Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Nepal) -Europe (Netherlands, Belgium) -other regions where you have contacts |
| Used skills | social science research methods |
| Requirements | MIL C |