Water Policy Entrepreneurs

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: PrefacePART I: INTRODUCTION1. Transitions in Water Management: Positioning this Book Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink2. Understanding and Managing Water Policy Transitions: A Policy Science PerspectiveSander Meijerink and Dave Huitema3. Driving Forces in Global Freshwater Governance Joyeeta GuptaPART II: THE AMERICAS4. Transitions: Transcending Multiple Ways of Knowing Water Resources in the United StatesHelen Ingram and Raul Lejano5. Political and Economic Apertures and the Shifting State–Citizen Relationship: Reforming Mexico’s National Water PolicyMargaret WilderPART III: AUSTRALASIA6. Implementing Integrated River Basin Management in China Dorri te Boekhorst, Toine Smits, Yu Xiubo, Li Lifeng, Lei Gang and Zhang Chen7. Where Does Policy Change Come From? And Where Does it End Up? Establishing Water User Associations in Large-Scale Canal Irrigation Systems in IndiaVishal Narain8. Averted Crises, Contested Transitions: Water Management in the Upper Ping River Basin, Northern Thailand Louis Lebel, Po Garden, Nutthawat Subsin and Sakkarin Na Nan9. Transitions in Indonesian Water Policy: Policy Windows through Crisis, Response through ImplementationAnjali Bhat and Peter P. Mollinga10. The Contribution of Actors to Achieving Sustainability in Australia through Water Policy TransitionsSara Hughes and Jennifer McKayPART IV: AFRICA11. South African Water and Mining Policy: A Study of Strategies for Transition ManagementAnthony Richard Turton12. Past, Present and Future Landscapes of Water Policy in TanzaniaJaqui Goldin and Deusdedit Kibassa PART V: EUROPE13. European Union Water Policy: To Transition or Not to Transition? Coalitions as KeyLena Partzsch14. The Introduction of Floodplain Rehabilitation and Rural Development into the Water Policy for the Tisza River in HungarySaskia E. Werners, Zsuzsanna Flachner and Piotr Matczak15. Spanish Water Management in Transition: Transition Management Watered Down? Nuria Font and Joan Subirats16. Neoliberal Transitions in Hydropower and Irrigation Water Management in Turkey: Main Actors and Opposition Groups Aysegül Kibaroglu, Argun Baskan and Sezin Alp17. Transitions to Adaptive Approaches to Water Management and Governance in Sweden Per Olsson and Victor Galaz18. Germany: Transitions in Flood Management in the Rhine BasinGert Becker19. Policy Dynamics in Dutch Water Management: Analysing the Contribution of Policy Entrepreneurs to Policy ChangeDave Huitema and Sander MeijerinkPART VI: CONCLUSIONS20. Water Transitions, Policy Entrepreneurs and Change Strategies: Lessons LearnedSander Meijerink and Dave HuitemaIndex

'What readers can expect to find in this book is an analysis that highlights the importance of environmentally sustainable water policy. The book does an excellent job of bringing "policy science" applications and water management together. We found the illustrative maps, pictures and diagrams beneficial as they helped to provide some context and added an additional layer of clarity. This book would be of interest to students and practitioners interested in water resources, environmental resource management and public policy. It makes contributions to the study of policy dynamics through a comparative analysis of policy change and is successful insofar as it provides a broad overview of international water policy challenges.'