Integrated and Adaptive Management of Water Resources: Tensions, Legacies, and the Next Best Thing

Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

Engle, Nathan¹ 

关键词: adaptive capacity;    adaptive management;    institutional inertia;    integrated water resources management;    resilience;    trade-offs;    water governance;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-03934-160119

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

Integrated water resources management (IWRM) and adaptive management (AM) are two institutional and management paradigms designed to address shortcomings within water systems governance; the limits of hierarchical water institutional arrangements in the case of IWRM and the challenge of making water management decisions under uncertainty in the case of AM. Recently, there has been a trend to merge these paradigms to address the growing complexity of stressors shaping water management such as globalization and climate change. However, because many of these joint approaches have received little empirical attention, questions remain about how they might work, or not, in practice. Here, we explore a few of these issues using empirical research carried out in Brazil. We focus on highlighting the potentially negative interactions, tensions, and trade-offs between different institutions/mechanisms perceived as desirable as research and practice attempt to make water systems management simultaneously integrated and adaptive. Our examples pertain mainly to the use of techno-scientific knowledge in water management and governance in Brazil

【 授权许可】

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