Tasty water of the good samaritan: collaborative governance and rural capacity enhancement for adapting water sources to climate change

摘要: As the management of water resources becomes increasingly complex due to climatic stresses on socio-ecological systems, growing evidence suggests that collaborative governance with meaningful local participation is vital for building institutional adaptive capacity. Using a participatory framework – Adaptive Co-Management we assessed nature and role formal collaboration in facilitating rural capacities adapt supply climate change-related salinization. Findings include perceptions change occurrence, insufficient responses, poor integration external responses into practices, concurrent opportunities constraints capacity development. We concluded framing adaptation strictly as technical problem restricting broad undercut embedded collective decision making processes informal regimes, which provide accumulated memory intimate detai...