Welcome to New Water Policy and Practice Journal

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Camkin ◽  
Susana Neto
Keyword(s):  
Water Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice

scholarly journals Designing transdisciplinary projects for collaborative policy-making: The Integration and Implementation Sciences framework as a tool for reflection

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-175
Author(s):  
Melissa Robson-Williams ◽  
Bruce Small ◽  
Roger Robson-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Water Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Practice Change ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Community Values ◽  
Project Completion ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Environmental Limits

Collaborative policy-making has increased in New Zealand, and with it has brought new demands for supporting research. As a tool for reflection of projects where both research and societal outcomes of policy and practice change are pursued and multiple knowledges are recognised, we use the Integration and Implementation Sciences framework. We present insights for the design and implementation of transdisciplinary research from the Selwyn Waihora Project, which aimed to produce socially robust information to support land and water policy-making in New Zealand’s South Island.The Selwyn Waihora Project was a research project supporting a collaborative policy-making process to set environmental limits in the Selwyn Waihora catchment in New Zealand’s South Island. In this Design Report we reflect on this project based on data collected from a range of project participants approximately two years after project completion. The data collection was guided by the Integration and Implementation Sciences framework (i2S). On the basis of participant responses, and the authors’ first-hand experiences working on the project, we present insights for transdisciplinary research. Through the questions asked by the i2S framework insights emerged on: what it means to honour community values; the importance of context but that projects can pay too much attention to it; boundary objects to foster integration across multiple knowledge systems; the value of intra-team narratives for translation; the importance of considering the losers of the research; and sharing the burden of uncertainty.

China's Water Policy and Practice

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiao Yong
Keyword(s):  
Water Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice

Livelihood impacts of water policy changes: evidence from a coastal area of the Mekong river delta

Water Policy ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 475-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.T. Hoanh ◽  
T.P. Tuong ◽  
K.M. Gallop ◽  
J.W. Gowing ◽  
S.P. Kam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Policy ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Mekong River Delta ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

The coastal zone of the Mekong river delta has experienced rapid economic and environmental changes during the last decade. Given the nature of the environment and the level of dependence on the natural resources base, policies for land and water were very influential in this process. The emphasis on rice created an imperative to control saline intrusion, which was realized through the construction of major engineering works over an extended period (1994-2000). The inertia built up by this process led to a divergence between policy and practice, and adversely affected the livelihoods of fishers and of those farmers who live on aquaculture. This prompted the government to rethink the rice-focus policy, in favor of a land and water policy for balanced rice and aquaculture production. This paper describes an analytical process, which was adopted to explore the feasibility of adopting the new policy for the balanced development of both rice and shrimp production and discusses the impact of the new policy on farmers’ livelihoods.

Integrated Water Resources Management: contrasting principles, policy, and practice, Awash River Basin, Ethiopia

Water Policy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adey Nigatu Mersha ◽  
Charlotte de Fraiture ◽  
Abraham Mehari ◽  
Ilyas Masih ◽  
Tena Alamirew
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Early Adopters ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Implementation Challenges

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been a dominant paradigm for water sector reform worldwide over the past two decades. Ethiopia, among early adopters, has developed a water policy, legislations, and strategy per IWRM core principles. However, considerable constraints are still in its way of realization. This paper investigates the central challenges facing IWRM implementation in the Awash Basin analyzing the discrepancy between IWRM principles, the approach followed in Ethiopia and its practice in the Awash Basin. A decade and a half since its adoption, the Ethiopian IWRM still lacks a well-organized and robust legal system for implementation. Unclear and overlapping institutional competencies as well as a low level of stakeholders’ awareness on policy contents and specific mandates of implementing institutions have prevented the Basin Authority from fully exercising its role as the prime institute for basin level water management. As a result, coordination between stakeholders, a central element of the IWRM concept, is lacking. Insufficient management instruments and planning tools for the operational function of IWRM are also among the major hurdles in the process. This calls for rethinking and action on key elements of the IWRM approach to tackle the implementation challenges.

scholarly journals Water Security as an Emergent Opportunity in Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
CASIS
Keyword(s):  
Water Policy ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Water Insecurity ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
August 15Th ◽  
Intelligence Studies

On August 15th 2019, the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies hosted its monthly roundtable focusing on “Water Security as an Emergent Opportunity for Canada”. The presentation was delivered by Dr. Zafar Adeel, a serving member on the editorial boards of Sustainability Science (Springer) and New Water Policy and Practice Journal (PSO). Dr. Adeel highlighted various emerging and continuing water security threats in British Columbia, emphasizing their similarities to other global issues. He directed his talk to addressing the impacts of climate change on water insecurity and its ability to create new threats to Canada’s coastal cities. The following roundtable discussion centered around a dialogue on the persistent insecurity in Canada’s indigenous communities as a security concern describing the matter as a play off between policy and security affairs. Audience members then brought into question the suitability of using the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine to intervene where a nation’s water security is at risk and addressed the complexities of the ‘react’ pillar in intervening militarily.

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