From IWRM back to integrated water resources management

摘要: Integrated water resources management provides a set of ideas to help us manage more holistically. However, these have been formalized over time in what has now become, capitals, Water Resources Management (IWRM), with specific prescriptive principles whose implementation is often supported by donor funding and international advocacy. IWRM become an end itself, some cases undermining functioning systems, others setting back needed reform agendas, yet becoming tool mask other agendas. Critically, the current monopoly global discourse shutting out alternative thinking on pragmatic solutions existing problems. This paper explains issues uses examples transboundary governance general, groundwater India rural–urban transfer China show that there are (sometimes antithetical) alternatives which being successfully used solve...