Water Management in a State-Centered Environment: Water Governance Analysis of Uzbekistan

Sustainability

Munira Aminova¹ 

[1] Faculty of Economics, Social and Political Sciences and the Solvay Business School, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

关键词: water management;    governance;    stakeholder analysis;    Central Asia;    Uzbekistan;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su1041240

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

In the early 1990s the countries of Central Asia started their transformation to a market economy. Uzbekistan is in the throes of change and facing a huge restructuring task and a need to improve governance. Decades of central bureaucratic allocation of natural resources left national bureaucrats with little capacity to formulate their own sustainable policies. Lack of inclusive, long term oriented policies and mechanisms in management of common pool resources brought catastrophic results in the past. The study reveals that implanting a top-down quota policy has positive effects on a larger public. However it may become a threat to the long term environmental sustainability.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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