Boundary Judgments in Water Governance: Diagnosing Internal and External Factors that Matter in a Complex World

摘要: Governance failures are widely recognized as a key reason why, despite sustained attention over previous decades, many longstanding water problems continue to go unsolved around the world. A major challenge in analyzing and addressing governance is making “boundary judgments” face of complexity. Improving requires accounting for diverse sometimes unclear set internal external factors that cause problems. For example, drivers, actors, institutions implicated may be both “internal” or “external” system, depending on how problem boundaries delineated. This confronts researchers practitioners alike, although recognition growing, it remains extremely challenging practically address. Diagnostic approaches needed deal with complexity contemporary In this paper, we propose practical diagnostic approach support structured, context-specific, critical inquiry. We build complementary initiatives emerging other fields, paying particular often neglected, while being sensitive capacity constraints policymakers practitioners. The flexible allowing either cursory in-depth analysis appropriate given situation. allows identification tangible improvements “small wins” improve systems within bigger-picture perspective causes Innovatively, take user-oriented practice, break new ground providing tractable tools dealing governance.