Integrated and Adaptive Management of Water Resources: Tensions, Legacies, and the Next Best Thing

dc.contributor.authorEngle, Nathan L.
dc.contributor.authorJohns, Owen R.
dc.contributor.authorLemos, Maria Carmen
dc.contributor.authorNelson, Donald R.
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-27T17:49:15Z
dc.date.available2011-09-27T17:49:15Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstract"Integrated water resources management (IWRM) and adaptive management (AM) are two institutional and management paradigms designed to address shortcomings within water systems governance; the limits of hierarchical water institutional arrangements in the case of IWRM and the challenge of making water management decisions under uncertainty in the case of AM. Recently, there has been a trend to merge these paradigms to address the growing complexity of stressors shaping water management such as globalization and climate change. However, because many of these joint approaches have received little empirical attention, questions remain about how they might work, or not, in practice. Here, we explore a few of these issues using empirical research carried out in Brazil. We focus on highlighting the potentially negative interactions, tensions, and trade-offs between different institutions/ mechanisms perceived as desirable as research and practice attempt to make water systems management simultaneously integrated and adaptive. Our examples pertain mainly to the use of techno-scientific knowledge in water management and governance in Brazils IWRM model and how it relates to participation, democracy, deliberation, diversity, and adaptability. We show that a legacy of technical and hierarchical management has shaped the integration of management, and subsequently, the degree to which management might also be adaptive. Although integrated systems may be more legitimate and accountable than top-down command and control ones, the mechanisms of IWRM may be at odds with the flexible, experimental, and self-organizing nature of AM."en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournalEcology and Societyen_US
dc.identifier.citationmonthMarchen_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber1en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume16en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/7575
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subjectadaptive systemsen_US
dc.subjectintegrationen_US
dc.subjectwater managementen_US
dc.subjectresilienceen_US
dc.subject.sectorWater Resource & Irrigationen_US
dc.titleIntegrated and Adaptive Management of Water Resources: Tensions, Legacies, and the Next Best Thingen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.type.methodologyCase Studyen_US
dc.type.publishedpublisheden_US

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