Water Governance in England: Improving Understandings and Practices through Systemic Co-Inquiry
Water Governance in England: Improving Understandings and Practices through Systemic Co-Inquiry
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英国的水治理：通过系统性共同调查提高理解和实践
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2016
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C. Blackmore
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Natalie Foster;Kevin Collins;R. Ison;C. Blackmore
2015年，英国的水治理经历了自1989年水务行业私有化以来最重大的变化。每一项变化都是对改善水治理领域内的具体挑战的回应。然而，他们也提出了许多问题：这些变化将如何在实践中发挥作用？他们会共同努力形成一个连贯的“整体”吗？协作和竞争的方法真的可以共存吗？本研究旨在让研究人员、政策制定者和实践者参与系统的共同调查，以提高对英国水治理的理解和实践。作为研究的一部分进行的两个讲习班分别侧重于英国当前和未来的水治理情况。研讨会的研究结果表明，系统的共同调查过程通常被证明是非常成功和有用的，对于这组利益相关者。工作坊为参加者提供机会，分享、探讨和挑战他们在水管治方面的想法、知识和经验；在此过程中，他们带来了共同的理解，揭示了新的见解，并确定了改善（改造）水治理的协调行动。然而，人们认识到，虽然英国在提高对水治理的理解和实践方面取得了重大进展，但为了在地方、国家或全球范围内实施这些改进，仍需要进一步的工作。
In 2015, water governance in England finds itself part way through perhaps the most significant changes since the privatisation of the water industry in 1989. Each of the changes is a response to the specific challenges that fall within the realm of improving water governance. However, they also raise many questions: How will the changes play out in practice? Will they work together to form a coherent ’whole’? Can collaborative and competitive approaches really co-exist? This research aims to engage researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in a systemic co-inquiry in order to improve understandings and practices in relation to water governance in England. The two workshops undertaken as part of the research focused on the current and future water governance situation in England, respectively. The findings from the workshops demonstrate that the systemic co-inquiry process generally proved very successful and useful for this group of stakeholders. The workshops provided the opportunity for participants to share, explore and challenge their ideas, knowledge and experiences in water governance; and in doing so, they brought about shared understandings, revealed new insights and identified concerted actions to improve (transform) water governance. However, it is recognised that whilst significant progress has been made towards improving understanding and practices in relation to water governance in England, there is still further work required in order to implement these improvements on a local, national or global scale.