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Interactive Perspectives on Water Governance in Asia

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This chapter argues for the importance of water governance perspectives in addressing water issues in Asia, focusing on interactions between policy and practice and between formal institutions and informal practices. First, the concepts of IWRM are revisited by referring to international guidelines. Next, major international perspectives on water governance as well as the concept of basin governance are reviewed, followed by ways to develop proper concepts for Asian countries and communities through interactive approaches. Finally, this chapter identifies issues to be discussed in each chapter of this book and synthesizes our findings while addressing remained tasks to be pursued further.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Editors’ Introduction, Radical History Review, 116, 2013, 1.

  2. 2.

    The principles are also referred to as the ‘“Dublin-Rio principles” (GWP-TAC 2000, 13).

  3. 3.

    Accessed on 29 January 2016.

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    See the Toolbox page of the GWP website at http://www.gwp.org/en/ToolBox/.

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    As a concept similar to “basin governance,” we can also use “watershed governance.” However, these two concepts differ somewhat because basin governance stresses upon geographical unity, and watershed governance places more stress upon functional integration of resources as water centrality. However, we know that “watershed” is sometimes used as a near-synonym for “basin.”

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    For the concept of “social-ecological systems,” see Berkes et al. (2003).

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Otsuka, K. (2019). Interactive Perspectives on Water Governance in Asia. In: Otsuka, K. (eds) Interactive Approaches to Water Governance in Asia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2399-7_1

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