Water co-management is a dynamic and fast growing field encompassing multi-level natural resource use, culture and politics. After her last two recently published books on the improvement and protection of lake ecosystems and the impacts of climate change on water and health, Velma I. Grover’s latest publication focuses on water management; in particular, the challenges its co-management can entail when people are trying to implement a framework for a mobile natural resource.
In practice, transboundary negotiations over water access as a shared resource can be tough and require cooperative efforts. Even allocations of this “limited” resource within a country between competing stakeholders require good management skills. The book shows examples of co-management where institutions and conservation regulations are developed to protect fisheries and waters. Various interests such as community-based groups and multi-level governance are represented in water co-management processes. The book covers a diverse range of case studies drawn from both North and South America (co-management of fisheries, resilience in near-shore waters of the Great Lakes basin, water level management in Lake Ontario, and case studies from Chile and Brazil), Europe (Tisza river, coastal management and examples of rivers from the Netherlands), Africa (Lake Victoria) and Asia (Pushkar Lake in India and from Uzbekistan).
"Water Co-Management" is out now in hardback and can be ordered here.
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