The United Nations estimates that more than 2 billion people in over 40 countries are negatively affected by water shortages. Increasing demand for water has been identified as one of four major factors that will threaten human and ecological health over the next generation. As public health, development, economy and nature suffer; ensuring access to clean water is rising towards the top of government agendas. This book aims to further global understanding of approaches and techniques for applying public participation to improve water resources management.
Author(s): Libor Jansky, Juha I. Uitto
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Commentary: 22293
Pages: 235
Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 8
Introduction......Page 14
1 Enhancing public participation and governance in water resources management......Page 16
2 Public participation and water resources management The case of West Sumatra......Page 34
3 Public participation in the development of a management plan for an international river basin The Okavango case......Page 46
4 Transboundary environmental impact assessment as a tool for promoting public participation in international watercourse management......Page 66
5 The Internet and e inclusion Promoting on line public participation......Page 96
6 Promoting public participation in international waters management An agenda for peer to peer learning......Page 111
7 Development of an email based field data collection system for environmental assessment......Page 133
8 New directions in the development of decision support systems for water resources management......Page 146
9 Improving public involvement and governance for transboundary water systems Process tools used by the Global Environment Facility......Page 170
10 Public participation and governance A Mekong River basin perspective......Page 193
Index......Page 230
