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Global Challenges in Water Governance

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This chapter examines how environmental concerns have been addressed in global water governance. It begins with a synopsis of some of the persistent and emergent factors affecting the health of freshwater ecosystems. It then situates the emergence of global water governance in the context of environmental values that gained political salience during the 1960s onward and which structured initial links of science to policy. This chapter shows how environmental concerns led to a commitment to developing more routine world water assessments. These have evolved over time and in response to the growing knowledge of the planet provided by the Earth sciences. Higher resolution accounts of both surface and groundwater availability are critical for global water governance, but can also belie the concrete environmental complexities at regional or local scales. To examine this complexity, the chapter concludes with a case study of the Mekong River Basin to show how western agendas of global water governance and IWRM have clashed with local and regional dynamics.

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  • eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)

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