Scarcity and Competition: The Challenges for Institutions to Promote Cooperation, Conflict Prevention and Resolution
- Resumen
- With increasing water scarcity, the understanding and management of the changing dynamics of the water-society interactions become ever more critical to resolve conflicts and promote cooperation at various spatial and sectoral scales. In this context, institutions¿as a system defined by the interactive roles of laws, policies, and organizations¿have a pivotal role as mechanisms for resolving conflicts and promoting cooperation in water allocation and management. Although the literature is vast on the subject, there are still some key issues requiring better understanding and treatment. For instance, while the focus is more on how institutions minimize conflicts and promote cooperation, there is a lack of proper treatment of how conflicts and consensus can change existing and create new institutions and what role stakeholders and other interest groups play in such process of institutional change. Similarly, there is also a need for a better empirical understanding of the relationships among water scarcity, water rights, forms of conflict resolution mechanisms, and institutional performance. This paper aims to shed some lights on these two aspects using a stakeholder-driven model of the process of institutional change and the data from an international survey of 127 water experts from 43 countries and regions around the world.
- Autor
- Maria Saleth, Rathinasamy
- Palabras Clave
- Sequías, Resoluciones, Política ambiental, Cambio climático, Conflicto social, Cooperación internacional
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