Title: On sustainable management in the local governance of water: a prospective localised study

Authors: Nadia Belaidi, Emmanuelle Renaud-Hellier

Addresses: CNRS Research Fellow, UMR PRODIG (CNRS 8586), GDR CNRS 2524 Res-Eau-Ville, 2, rue Valette 75005 Paris, France. ' Theorize and Model for Management (TheMA), UMR 6049 CNRS, University of Burgundy, 2, boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France

Abstract: In the face of the changes in the planet|s natural resources and of their unequal distribution, it is becoming more urgent that contemporary societies oversee environmental assets in a global manner. Although international directives, when they are transposed into national laws, may set specific objectives, meeting them at the local level is as yet an uneven enterprise. Nevertheless we hope to demonstrate, using a case-study involving local tensions over water resources, that public management of the crisis may be developed that effectively involves the civic society, by using the incentives and enforcement tools of central government and of local institutions.

Keywords: water resources; urbanisation; water uses; common good; sustainable development; water rights; access; local government; joint management; public regulation; civil society; sustainable development; sustainable management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSD.2006.011640

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2006 Vol.9 No.2, pp.180 - 198

Published online: 06 Dec 2006 *

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