Abstract
The availability of enough clean water for man and nature and protection
against flooding are two of the toughest challenges with which society
has to deal. Climate change makes this even more urgent. Ensuring
human dignity and equity and the protection of ecosystems and natural
resources strongly depends on appropriate water management. Besides
researching several principles and concepts that have been developed to
deal with water management and climate change, this contribution tries
to develop an analytical legal framework for the institutional design of
regional and local water management. Lessons can be learnt from other
disciplines, like social and political sciences, economics, environmental
sciences and public administration. Because disasters provide an opportunity
to learn, adapt and improve a legal and governance system we can
say that more disasters bring about more learning. A thousand years of
local and regional water management in the Netherlands in which many
lessons have been learned therefore seems to be an appropriate case
study to develop an institutional legal framework for sustainable regional water management in times of climate change
against flooding are two of the toughest challenges with which society
has to deal. Climate change makes this even more urgent. Ensuring
human dignity and equity and the protection of ecosystems and natural
resources strongly depends on appropriate water management. Besides
researching several principles and concepts that have been developed to
deal with water management and climate change, this contribution tries
to develop an analytical legal framework for the institutional design of
regional and local water management. Lessons can be learnt from other
disciplines, like social and political sciences, economics, environmental
sciences and public administration. Because disasters provide an opportunity
to learn, adapt and improve a legal and governance system we can
say that more disasters bring about more learning. A thousand years of
local and regional water management in the Netherlands in which many
lessons have been learned therefore seems to be an appropriate case
study to develop an institutional legal framework for sustainable regional water management in times of climate change
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Water and the Law, Towards Sustainability |
| Editors | Michael Kidd, Loretta Feris, Tumai Murombo, Alejandro Iza |
| Place of Publication | Cheltenham UK |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Pages | 274-304 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978 1 78347 962 7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978 1 78347 960 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Publication series
| Name | The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Series |
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Keywords
- water law, institutional framework, design principles, sustainability, climate change