Dictionary of Ecological Economics

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Water governance a. an analytical concept to describe the relationships between the state, stakeholders, and society, on water.Water governance encompasses the related concepts of water policy, or the instruments and mechanisms used to achieve a certain outcome, water politics, or the power relations between different actors, and water polity, or the institutions in which decision-making on water takes place (Schulz et al., 2017).b. a normative concept to describe more flexible, constructive, and participatory approaches for governing water, that challenge traditional hierarchical relationships between the state and society, often captured under the headline 'from government to governance' (Yazdanpanah et al., 2013).

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