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Even without a global convention on the right to water, national water policies and politics are already heavily influenced by global environmental governance processes in other areas, e.g. climate change and biodiversity, which offer many opportunities for linking national water policies to global policies aiming at sustainability. These processes are based on simultaneous interventions of multiple actors on the local, national and global levels.
The article asks whether a global regime is crucial for furthering sustainable water policies and analyses the apparent costs and benefits of already existing global environmental regimes in general as well as their interfaces with water policy. Then, an actor-oriented case study from the Brazilian Amazon (conflicts around the dam and hydro-electric plant at Belo Monte) is presented which shows that in Brazil, national water policies and local water-related politics are already permeated by global governance elements and thus contribute to the implementation of global environmental governance as such.
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Scholz, I. (2008). Global Environmental Governance and Its Influence on National Water Policies. In: Scheumann, W., Neubert, S., Kipping, M. (eds) Water Politics and Development Cooperation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76707-7_4
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