Political pitfalls of integrated watershed management

被引:181
作者
Blomquist, W
Schlager, E
机构
[1] Indiana Univ Purdue Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA
[2] Univ Arizona, Sch Publ Adm & Policy, Tucson, AZ USA
关键词
consensus decision making; integrated water resources management; political decision making; watershed management; watershed organizations;
D O I
10.1080/08941920590894435
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
Integrated watershed management, preferably under the direction of a watershed or basin management body, has been prescribed in the water policy literature and from other quarters for decades. Few instances may be found where this recommendation has been implemented. This gap between prescription and practice is sometimes attributed to politics, as a sort of nuisance to he overcome or avoided through rational, comprehensive, consensus-based decision making. Fundamental political considerations are inherent in water resources management, however, and are unavoidable even if the desire,for watershed-scale decision-snaking bodies were realized. Boundary definition, choices about decision-making arrangements, and issues of accountability will arise in any watershed and may help to explain why watershed management has more often taken polycentric organizational forms composed of subwatershed communities of interest. An example of a small Southern California watershed is used to highlight the political issues inherent in attempts at watershed management.
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页码:101 / 117
页数:17
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