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The Growing Importance Of Social Learning In Water Resources Management And Sustainability Science, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Erik Mostert, David Tàbara
The Growing Importance Of Social Learning In Water Resources Management And Sustainability Science, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Erik Mostert, David Tàbara
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The perceptions of what is required for sustainable water resources management and sustainability science in general have undergone major changes over the past decade. Initially, water resources management followed an instrumental “prediction and control” approach, dominated by technical end-of-pipe solutions. Pollution control, for example, relied primarily on waste water treatment instead of source control, and flood management was based on dykes and reservoirs rather than non-structural measures such as land-use zoning. This approach has yielded important results, but it came at a price. In many places, the natural dynamics of the river environment have been destroyed. Moreover, this approach no …
Managing Waters Of The Paraíba Do Sul River Basin, Brazil: A Case Study In Institutional Change And Social Learning, Lori M. Kumler, Maria Carmen Lemos
Managing Waters Of The Paraíba Do Sul River Basin, Brazil: A Case Study In Institutional Change And Social Learning, Lori M. Kumler, Maria Carmen Lemos
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This article examines the implementation of integrated water-management institutions in the Paraíba do Sul River basin in southeast Brazil. It argues that social learning has been critical in facilitating reform implementation so far, and will likely continue to be an important factor for the future sustainability of the new management system. There has been a synergistic relationship between social learning and Brazil’s water-reform hybrid governance institutions, in which social learning facilitated the implementation of the reform’s new institutions, which in turn enabled further learning in the context of the river basin committee’s decision-making process. Through interviews, surveys, and observations, we …