Reconceptualising water quality governance to incorporate knowledge and values: Case studies from Australian and Brazilian Indigenous communities

摘要: This paper examines the significance of knowledge and values for water quality its governance. Modernist approaches to governance in rivers lakes need be reconceptualised overhauled. The problems include: perceiving only as a physical chemical liquid, defining narrow terms, rendering invisible, boiling down uses presumed economic importance limiting how by whom objectives are set or actions taken. In addressing reframe governance, counter objectification quality, we propose framework that explicitly recognises relating water. While our could apply other contexts under influence modernist water-management regimes, here pay particular attention relevance knowledge, Indigenous people. second half address issues related water-quality two countries, Brazil Australia, showing some ways which, despite enormous obstacles, communities re-work structures through their engagements with values.