Multi-Stakeholder Platforms for Integrated Water Management (Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754670651 ISBN 13: 9780754670650

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

As they provide a negotiating space for a diversity of interests, Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) are an increasingly popular mode of involving civil society in resource management decisions. This book focuses on water management to take a positive, if critical, look at this phenomenon. Illustrated by a wide geographical range of case studies from both developed and developing worlds, it recognizes that MSPs will neither automatically break down divides nor bring actors to the table on an equal footing, and argues that MSPs may in some cases do more harm than good. The volume then examines how MSPs can make a difference and how they might successfully co-opt the public, private and civil-society sectors. The book highlights the particular difficulties of MSPs when dealing with integrated water management programmes, explaining how MSPs are most successful at a less complex and more local level. It finally questions whether MSPs are - or can be - sustainable, and puts forward suggestions for improving their durability.

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About the Author

Jeroen Warner is from Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754670651
• ISBN 13: 9780754670650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Warner Jeroen