Claudia Pahl-Wostl Livres

Focusing on multi-level water governance, this book develops a comprehensive framework to understand and analyze complex water governance systems. It reconciles the need for general principles with context-specific factors, emphasizing governance reform, adaptive capacity, and societal learning. Addressing the pressing challenges of sustainable water management, it highlights that many issues stem from governance failures. This resource is essential for researchers and practitioners tackling water governance challenges, enhancing understanding in a critical environmental area.

Sustainable water management is a key environmental challenge of the 21st century. This book presents the very latest studies, methods and innovations for managing our water resources from the first International Conference on Adaptive and Integrated Water Management, held in November 2007 in Basel, Switzerland. The book addresses a wide interdisciplinary audience of scientists and professionals from academia, industry, and those involved in policy making.