Multilevel Water Governance and Problems of Scale: Setting the Stage for a Broader Debate
Multilevel Water Governance and Problems of Scale: Setting the Stage for a Broader Debate
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多层次水治理和规模问题：为更广泛的辩论奠定基础
DOI：
10.1007/s00267-010-9531-1
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
J. Newig
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作者：
T. Moss;J. Newig
环境治理和管理面临着与空间尺度和多层次治理有关的多重挑战。水资源管理是一个对尺度问题特别敏感的领域，因为从小流域到大流域的水文系统及其不同的标量水平发挥着如此突出的作用。因此，它阐明了现代环境管理和治理中的基本问题和规模困境。在这篇介绍性文章中，环境管理专题“多层次水治理：应对规模问题”，我们描述了我们对规模问题的理解以及对水资源管理至关重要的标量政治的维度。我们提供了一个概述的贡献，这一特殊功能，最后讨论如何标量研究可以有效地挑战传统的水资源管理的智慧。我们希望，关于水资源管理的这一讨论能够激发对环境管理和一般管理的标量层面进行更广泛的辩论和调查。
Environmental governance and management are facing a multiplicity of challenges related to spatial scales and multiple levels of governance. Water management is a field particularly sensitive to issues of scale because the hydrological system with its different scalar levels from small catchments to large river basins plays such a prominent role. It thus exemplifies fundamental issues and dilemmas of scale in modern environmental management and governance. In this introductory article to an Environmental Management special feature on “Multilevel Water Governance: Coping with Problems of Scale,” we delineate our understanding of problems of scale and the dimensions of scalar politics that are central to water resource management. We provide an overview of the contributions to this special feature, concluding with a discussion of how scalar research can usefully challenge conventional wisdom on water resource management. We hope that this discussion of water governance stimulates a broader debate and inquiry relating to the scalar dimensions of environmental governance and management in general.