Water Governance—An Historical Perspective on Current Debates

P. Woodhouse and M. Muller

World Development, 2017, vol. 92, issue C, 225-241

Abstract: Since the UN water conference at Mar del Plata in 1977, there have been international debates about how water governance could and should respond to the challenges of sustainable development. New global institutions were established to promote universal norms of governance based on the 1992 “Dublin Principles” and its version of “Integrated Water Resource Management” (IWRM). Many of these prescriptions were contested, not least because of their advocacy of market-based approaches to address what were posed as challenges of scarcity and environmental sustainability.

Keywords: water; governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.11.014

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