Water Governance from the basin to the global Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Joyeeta Gupta
Basin Governance
Issues addressed Comparative studies of multi-level basin governance regimes transferability of insights Adaptive capacity of governance regimes and ability to deal with global change State of global governance regime Future development of global water governance descriptive and normative perspective Influence of global water governance on regional / national levels and vice versa
Basin governance emerging insights Tension between decentralization and centralization Tension between line-hierarchies and network governance Tension between basin and political boundaries Problems of institutional spatial misfit and vertical interplay when new institutions are implemented following hydrological principle Lack of sectoral integration - principle of ecosystem goods and services promising approach for integration Change at operational level slow despite change in political rhetoric and supportive political frameworks Reluctance of stakeholders to acknowledge uncertainties Evidence supports need to focus on processes of learning and change
Progress opportunities related to GWSP endorsed projects NeWater and Twin2Go
NeWater New approaches to adaptive water management under uncertainty Transdisciplinary Research Project: FP6 EU January 2005 May 2009 Funded with 12 Mio Euro from the EU 35 project partners www.newater.info
NeWater Contribution GWSP Conceptual framework for water governance and management regimes and methods for comparative analyses Sharing of data in a global data base and dissemination through a global network Material and programmes in capacity building and training of students and practitioners
Capacity Building and Training
Capacity Building and Training Train the Trainers Course Adaptive Water Management 1st course: 1-2 April 2008, Osnabrück, Germany 2nd course: 13-15 October 2008, New Delhi, India 3rd course: 12-14 May 2009, Bonn, Germany collaboration NeWATER (EU), GWSP, UNW-DPC, UNU (United Nations University)
Twin2Go Coordinating Twinning partnerships towards more adaptive Governance in river basins Coordination Action: FP7 EU Start June 2009 duration 2 years Funded with 1 Mio Euro from the EU 8 project partners
Twin2Go Objectives elaborate a diagnostic approach that allows analyzing the results of past and on-going projects with regard to water governance and adaptation to climate change draw from existing project results appropriate context specific approaches for an improved and adaptive water resources management taking into account experiences made in similar circumstances disseminate consolidated results to policy level where decisions are taken while also making them available to stakeholders and implementing authorities, and thus to ensure best exploitation of existing research formulate best practices and tools that ensure up-take of research results by relevant authorities, stakeholders and endusers
Basins 30 basins in all continents Africa Orange Ocavango Niger Olifant Nile
A diagnostic approach Characteristics of a problem situation Match! Characteristics of a solution No panaceas but context sensitive solutions (processes, instruments.) to improve the performance of water governance and management
Framework of analysis Context Water governance regime Performance History
Twin2Go Contribution GWSP Access to international dissemination platform to emphasize importance of global dimension GWSP IPO participates as subcontractor handling coordination of international stakeholder platform (and supporting implementation of data base) Insights gained in Twin2Go on requirements for adaptive governance and feasibility of diagnostic approach
Comparative analyses of governance regimes will be realized as part of GCI and GWNI
Global data base Lack of (accessible) data from the human dimension Need to specify requirements for integration of human dimension and in particular soft aspects in integrated analysis Need to agree on standardized protocols
Global Water Governance
Product from Workshop On Water Governance
Global Water Governance Processes World Water Council and World Water Forum UN Conventions on Water Human Rights Council (UN) Millenium Development Project of the UN European Water Initiative Global Players in Water Industry Global Diffusions of Norms/Institutions
Characteristics of current Global Water Governance Global Water Governance is diffuse and mobiusweb like in character Lack of strong motivation within UN agencies and states to push water management has been compensated by rise of pluralistic bodies trying to deal with these issues Lack of global coordination and leadership Pahl-Wostl, et al 2008
Global Water Political System: Converging water policy Forces: The spread of Civilizations Religion Conquest Ideology Codification Epistemic comm. Environmentalism Globalization Example Mesopotamia - ownership Islam priority of use Roman, Napoleon, colonization Communism International law Ass. IWA - dams, GWP - IWRM Laws, NGOs Dominant discourses
Eg. Pluralism in Africa Combining impact of religious systems and colonisation 4 UNESCO IHE Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Institute for Water GWSP Education SSC, October 2009
Global Water System: Governance Discourses Ownership Sovereignty Riparianism Appropriation Licensing Market principles Security Management IWRM Access Equity Human rights Gender Ecosystem rights Damage No harm Prior Informed Consent Economic Open international economic system International investment law Environmental EIA Sustainable development Precautionary approach PPP Good governance Participation Subsidiarity Conflict resolution
Power and Discourses in Global Governance Patterns of discursive formation within levels Patterns of discursive formation between levels International level Coalitions EU level Coalitions Discourses National level: Netherlands ND Discourses Comparative analysis ND ND DD ND ND ND DD DD ND ND ND DD ND DD ND ND ND India
An Analytical Framework: GWSP and ESG Power Knowledge Norms Scale Architecture Agency Adaptiveness Accountability Access and Allocation ClaudiaPahl-Wostl, GWSP SSC, October 2009
Article in latest GWSP Newsletter Global Water Governance: Quo vadis?
Sessions IHDP Conference Bonn April 2009 Institutionally challenged: history and prospects of managing river basins in a changing global environment Governance and the Global Water System: The need to adopt a global perspective on water issues!
Themes addressed in contributions Transformability of river management regimes Social Learning and Water Regime Change towards Adaptive and Integrated Approaches The Co-Production of Knowledge about Water Resources Influence of Political Culture on Water Governance Institutions
Contributions Towards a new environmental ethics and the solution of water conflicts: The case of the Latin American Water Tribunal Patricia Avila Garcia The Global Water System Project and Governance Activities A multi-level governance challenge: How to overcome the seeming trade-off between ecosystem and human water needs? Claudia Pahl-Wostl United Waters: From Multi-Governance of Water to Multilevel WaterGovernance - Towards a Kyoto for Watermanagement? Theo Thoonen
ESF conference proposal Water Governance Meeting the Challenges of Global Change Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Joyeeta Gupta and Theo Toonen Date: June 2011 duration of 4 days Decision on proposals March/April 2010 Objectives Establish state of the art on major recent insights and advances in concepts and methodology in analyses of water governance and policy Bridge regional and global scales in multi-level analyses of water governance Strengthen emerging community of water governance scholars
Session Themes Global governance of water current developments and future prospects Conceptual foundations to understand properties and dynamics of multi-level water governance regimes Methods for comparative analyses of multi-level water governance regimes Water governance addressing (global and) climate change Water governance addressing the environmental dimension Legitimacy and multi-level governance: lessons for the water column
Next steps open issues. Strong request from research community to organize workshop on methods Contribution to a global data base (link to activity of a group on data base on SES) Need for capacity building Exploit synergies with Twin2Go dissemination strategy Two workshops on global water governance Inventory of themes and approaches -> joint publication Development of shared perspective(s) -> joint activities