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From the contributors to The Conversation, a compelling essay
collection on the world's water crises and the necessary steps to
build a more sustainable and equitable water future for all.
Water-related crises are affecting more and more communities, both
in the United States and internationally. If we continue to delay
upgrading our infrastructure and addressing rising environmental
concerns, we risk further destabilizing already strained
systems—or, worse, causing a catastrophic collapse. In The
Conversation on Water, water scholar and professor Andrea K. Gerlak
collects essays from The Conversation U.S. on critical issues
related to water from leading experts in everything from public
policy to environmental engineering. Gerlak pays special attention
to the threats facing our water systems today—covering
insufficient infrastructure, climate change, and pollution—and
integrates them with essays on technologies for harvesting water
and Indigenous knowledge in governing the oceans. She then proposes
solutions that present opportunities for hope and reform. From new
partnerships and collaborative efforts to alternative governance
practices and new scientific tools and community approaches,
readers will learn about viable pathways forward and will
understand the deep social and political dimensions of water
governance. Understanding these challenges is the first step toward
building a more sustainable and equitable water future for all. The
Critical Conversations series collects essays from top scholars on
timely topics, including water, biotechnology, gender diversity,
gun culture, and more, originally published on the independent news
site The Conversation U.S. Contributors: Roger Bales, Kevin Befus,
Robert Blasiak, Ellen Bruno, Bethany Caruso, Sebastien Chastin,
Craig E. Colten, Joseph Cook, Michelle DiBenedetto, Farshid
Felfelani, Gabriel Filippelli, Michail Georgiou, Burke Griggs, Gary
Griggs, Drew Gronewold, Marissa Grunes, Danielle Hare, Brian Haus,
Dan Johnson, Carol Kwiatkowski, Rosalyn R. LaPier, Katharine Mach,
Amahia Mallea, Daniel McCool, Jacob Miller-Klugesherz, Nobuhito
Mori, Thomas Mortlock, Suzanne O'Connell, Itxaso Odériz, Joseph D.
Ortiz, Meg Parsons, Raquel Partelli-Feltrin, Yadu Pokhrel, Manzoor
Qadir, Julie Reimer, Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos, Richard Rood, Asher
Rosinger, Matthew R. Sanderson, Heidi Schweizer, Alan Seltzer, A.
R. Siders, Rodolfo Silva-Casarín, Vladimir Smakhtin, Bruce
Sutherland, Lara Taylor, Emily Ury, Ton Van den Bremer, Andrew J.
Whelton
Whether the goal is building a local park or developing disaster
response models, collaborative governance is changing the way
public agencies at the local, regional, and national levels are
working with each other and with key partners in the nonprofit and
private sectors. While the academic literature has spawned numerous
case studies and context- or policy-specific models for
collaboration, the growth of these innovative collaborative
governance systems has outpaced the scholarship needed to define
it. Collaborative Governance Regimes breaks new conceptual and
practical ground by presenting an integrative framework for working
across boundaries to solve shared problems, a typology for
understanding variations among collaborative governance regimes,
and an approach for assessing both process and productivity
performance. This book draws on diverse literatures and uses rich
case illustrations to inform scholars and practitioners about
collaborative governance regimes and to provide guidance for
designing, managing, and studying such endeavors in the future.
Collaborative Governance Regimes will be of special interest to
scholars and researchers in public administration, public policy,
and political science who want a framework for theory building, yet
the book is also accessible enough for students and practitioners.
Whether the goal is building a local park or developing disaster
response models, collaborative governance is changing the way
public agencies at the local, regional, and national levels are
working with each other and with key partners in the nonprofit and
private sectors. While the academic literature has spawned numerous
case studies and context- or policy-specific models for
collaboration, the growth of these innovative collaborative
governance systems has outpaced the scholarship needed to define
it. Collaborative Governance Regimes breaks new conceptual and
practical ground by presenting an integrative framework for working
across boundaries to solve shared problems, a typology for
understanding variations among collaborative governance regimes,
and an approach for assessing both process and productivity
performance. This book draws on diverse literatures and uses rich
case illustrations to inform scholars and practitioners about
collaborative governance regimes and to provide guidance for
designing, managing, and studying such endeavors in the future.
Collaborative Governance Regimes will be of special interest to
scholars and researchers in public administration, public policy,
and political science who want a framework for theory building, yet
the book is also accessible enough for students and practitioners.
The modern era is facing unprecedented governance challenges in
striving to achieve long-term sustainability goals and to limit
human impacts on the Earth system. This volume synthesizes a decade
of multidisciplinary research into how diverse actors exercise
authority in environmental decision making, and their capacity to
deliver effective, legitimate and equitable Earth system
governance. Actors from the global to the local level are
considered, including governments, international organizations and
corporations. Chapters cover how state and non-state actors engage
with decision-making processes, the relationship between agency and
structure, and the variations in governance and agency across
different spheres and tiers of society. Providing an overview of
the major questions, issues and debates, as well as the theories
and methods used in studies of agency in earth system governance,
this book provides a valuable resource for graduate students and
researchers, as well as practitioners and policy makers working in
environmental governance. This is one of a series of publications
associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more
publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance.
The modern era is facing unprecedented governance challenges in
striving to achieve long-term sustainability goals and to limit
human impacts on the Earth system. This volume synthesizes a decade
of multidisciplinary research into how diverse actors exercise
authority in environmental decision making, and their capacity to
deliver effective, legitimate and equitable Earth system
governance. Actors from the global to the local level are
considered, including governments, international organizations and
corporations. Chapters cover how state and non-state actors engage
with decision-making processes, the relationship between agency and
structure, and the variations in governance and agency across
different spheres and tiers of society. Providing an overview of
the major questions, issues and debates, as well as the theories
and methods used in studies of agency in earth system governance,
this book provides a valuable resource for graduate students and
researchers, as well as practitioners and policy makers working in
environmental governance. This is one of a series of publications
associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more
publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance.
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