Politics of River Basin Organisations

Edited by Dave Huitema, Professor of Environmental Policy, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam and the Faculty of Management, Science and Technology, The Open University of the Netherlands and Sander Meijerink, Assistant Professor of Water Governance, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

• Contents:1. The Politics of River Basin Organisations. Institutional Design Choices, Coalitions and ConsequencesDave Huitema and Sander Meijerink2. Global Water Governance and River Basin OrganisationsFrank Jaspers and Joyeeta Gupta3. Cooperative Transboundary Water Governance in Canada’s Mackenzie River Basin: Status and ProspectsRob de Loë and Michelle Morris4. Designing an Agency to Manage a Wicked Water Problem: The Oregon Watershed Enhancement BoardDenise Lach and Dan Calvert5. Partnering for Success in England: The Westcountry Rivers Trust Hadrian Cook, David Benson and Alex Inman6. State-Founded Water Boards in Industrialized Western GermanyFrank Hüesker and Christoph Bernhardt7. Emergence, Performance and Transformation of Portuguese Water Institutions in the Age of River Basin Organisations Andreas Thiel and António Guerreiro de Brito8. The Politics of Establishing Catchment Management Agencies in South Africa: The Case of the Breede-Overberg Catchment Management AgencyRichard Meissner and Nikki Funke9. Introducing River Basin Management in a Transitional Context – A Case Study about UkraineNina Hagemann and Marco Leidel10. River Basin Organisations in Northern Afghanistan: The Holy Trinity of Contemporary Water Management in Practice Jeroen Warner and Vincent Thomas11. Evolving River Basin Management in Mongolia?Ines Dombrowsky, Annabelle Houdret and Lena Horlemann12. Interplay Between New Basin Organisations, Pre-existing Institutions and Emerging Environmental Networks in the Mae Kuang Watershed, Northern ThailandSantita Ganjanapan and Louis Lebel13. The Evolution of River Basin Management in the Murray-Darling Basin Andrew Ross and Daniel Connell14. Institutional Design, Politics and Performance of River Basin OrganisationsSander Meijerink and Dave HuitemaIndex

‘A long overdue volume which comes to grips with the diversity of physical, political and administrative realities behind the seemingly uniform and appealing institution of the River Basin Organization. This book squarely engages with the politics of RBO formation and will provide clues and inspiration to those interested in further exploring the complexities of human institutions in their attempt to manage water resources for the greater good.’