Institutional Innovation In Water Management

Author : W.R.D. Sewell
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0860941892
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Innovation in Water Management written by W.R.D. Sewell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1986-06-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water supply is high on the international political agenda. This study, using the Scottish experience as an examplar, shows that institutional innovation is as important if not more so than improved technology in providing water for a growing world population.

Author : W. R. Derrick Sewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780203268407
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Innovation in Water Management written by W. R. Derrick Sewell and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water supply is high on the international political agenda. This study, using the Scottish experience as an examplar, shows that institutional innovation is as important if not more so than improved technology in providing water for a growing world population.

Author : Duncan A. Thomas
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781958391
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Innovation in Water and Wastewater written by Duncan A. Thomas and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extremely well-researched and documented book. The authors hypothesis is that the current water and wastewater sector is failing the populations of the western-world by clinging to orthodox and short-term visions of new technology and innovation, and also failing the developing nations by believing that delivery of western-world high-technology solutions is a contribution to humanitarian development. This is the crisis of innovation . To many practitioners in the water industry the book will be perceived to be hypercritical (of the incrementalism, conservative and dogged traditionalism ) of the sector, but in fact it is stimulating and positive. In the latter chapters an alternate more holistic model of water development is described. There needs to be a movement from large, central infrastructure resources to distributed systems that are more appropriate to local needs and can be coupled with environmentally sustainable energy sources and practices. Tim Lack, European Topic Centre on Water, UK Whilst acknowledging a massive leap from standpipe to universal water provision in 100 years in developed countries, the authors of this book see problems for global sustainable water supply and wastewater removal in the future. Using the UK water industry as an example, they describe the global water industry as risk averse and unwilling to innovate, a view that is encouraged by the institutional and financial regimes under which it works. The book explores the reasons for concern and sets out some hard-hitting views on how the water industry is failing to identify and tackle the essential problems in a world which is becoming ever more depleted of fresh water. The concluding chapter brings to a focus the problems of the crisis in innovation and gives some concrete suggestions for tackling them. This volume should raise the awareness of policymakers and regulators, technologists and concerned members of the public. Peter Chave, Independent Consultant and formerly Head of Pollution Control, National Rivers Authority, UK This significant new book highlights a little acknowledged but potentially catastrophic crisis of innovation in the global water sector, which institutions and industries are frighteningly ill-equipped to tackle or even accept. It suggests potential new technology and policy approaches to overcome both current and future problems. The book explores how technological innovation is vital to help provide sustainable water in both the UK and developing countries. However, innovation is being overlooked in the face of global trends to privatize and regulate water utilities. The authors highlight how the global water sector is failing to respond to increasingly complex world needs and continues to build largely unsustainable centralized infrastructures, opposing more appropriate, distributed and local modern technologies. The book also includes suggestions for potentially innovative technology and policy solutions to meet escalating global water and wastewater demands. Importantly, the authors adopt a long-term perspective that crosses both disciplinary and institutional boundaries, and include an international comparative perspective, covering a diverse range of examples and countries. This comprehensive book will have a broad appeal amongst researchers and academics with an interest in technology management, innovation studies, geography and development studies. It will also be a valuable asset for water regulators and governmental and non-governmental organisations working in this field.

Author : José Antonio Correa Ibargüengoitia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Innovation in Water Management written by José Antonio Correa Ibargüengoitia and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis explores the difference in adoption patterns of water recharge well technology in Mexico City both by local entities and the central city government. The research finds that this technology, originally designed by the central city with the stated purpose of aiding aquifer recharge, was adopted by local entities driven by concerns over flood control. Geophysical realities, complemented by political and socioeconomic factors, are key in deciding the use and type of infiltration technology by local entities. Water policy priorities at the local level are a decidedly local affair, which makes coordination difficult and thus constitutes a challenge for sustainable water management in Mexico City as a whole. Ineffective formal coordination mechanisms among the three levels of government, and the incentives that explain the uneven adoption of recharge wells by local communities, suggest an alternative approach to metropolitan water governance. In addition to traditional solutions such as regulation and formal metropolitan cooperation bodies, a third path of sustainable water management would involve a division of tasks between high and lower local level governments. Levels of government with the resources and incentives to develop technologies with systemic impacts and that address immediate needs can then "market" or "scale down" these solutions to localities whose incentive structure would lead them to, in effect, implement these solutions. In this way, collective action problems could be sidelined at the metropolitan scale.

Author : Warren Viessman
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Management written by Warren Viessman and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chennat Gopalakrishnan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783540805076
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Institutions: Policies, Performance and Prospects written by Chennat Gopalakrishnan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a global survey and assessment of the structure, evolution, and performance of water institutions – administration policies and regulatory practices – in regional, national, and international settings. The coverage includes analysis and discussion of the rationale for institutional innovations, based on case study findings; specific suggestions for sustainable institutional design; and recommendations for implementing institutional reforms.

Author : Vishal Narain
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125024989
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutions, Technology, and Water Control written by Vishal Narain and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few studies of resource management have paid as much attention or intelligently surveyed the operational aspects of Water Users Associations (WUAs) as Institution, Technology and Water Control. Relying on ethnographic research methods, Narain takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine how institutions are shaped by technology. Calling attention to the internal organisational dynamics of the WUAs, the author argues that the emergence of institutions for collective action is shaped by technology and social relationships.

Author : R. Maria Saleth
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821356562
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Institutional Economics of Water written by R. Maria Saleth and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines issues of water sector reform and performance from the perspectives of institutional economics and political economic studies. The authors develop an alternative quantitative assessment methodology based on the principle of 'institutional ecology', as well as data collected from 127 water experts from 43 countries and regions around the world using a cross-country review of recent water sector reforms within an institutional transaction cost framework.

Author : Ken Conca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing Water written by Ken Conca and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical and case-study exploration of water politics demonstrates the emergence of alternative institutional forms of global environmental governance that go beyond traditional interstate regimes.

Author : Yacov Y. Haimes
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scientific, Technological And Institutional Aspects Of Water Resource Policy written by Yacov Y. Haimes and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1980-07-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: