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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | IWRM challenges in developing countries: lessons from India and elsewhere
Autores: | International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
Data: | 2011-08-15
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Water resource management; Institutional development; Tube wells; Economic aspects; Policy; Farm Management; Institutional and Behavioral Economics.
Resumo: | Developing  countries  like  India  are  actively  being  encouraged  to  move  from  the  traditional  supply-side orientation  towards  proactive  demand  management  under  the  broad  framework  of  Integrated  Water Resources Management (IWRM). Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a sound philosophy which is hard to disagree with. However, in developing countries, what usually gets passed-off in the name of  IWRM  at  the  operational  level  takes  a  rather  narrow  view  of  the philosophy  and  has  largely  tended  to include  a  blue-print  package  including:  [1]  A  national  water  policy;  [2]  A  water  law  and  regulatory framework;  [3]  Recognition  of  River  Basin as  the  appropriate  unit  of  water  and  land  resources planning and  management;  [4]  Treating  water  as  an  economic  good;  and  [5]  Participatory  water  resource management. Several of these mark a significant shift from current paradigms and making this transition is proving to be difficult. Drafting new water laws is easy; enforcing them is not. Renaming regional water departments as basin  organizations  is  easy;  but  managing  water  resources  at  basin  level  is  not.  Declaring  water  an economic good is simple; but using price mechanisms to direct water to high-value uses is proving complex. As a consequence,  the  so-called  IWRM  initiatives  in  developing  country contexts  have  proved  to  be ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst.
Tipo: | Report
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/113018

Relação:

International Water Management Institute&gt;IWMI Water Policy Briefings

IWMI Water Policy Briefing

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Formato: | 7p.