RT Journal Article
T1 Adaptive capacity in federal rivers: coordination challenges and institutional responses
A1 Garrick, Dustin Evan
A1 De Stefano, Lucia, Lucia
AB Water crises have been described as crises of fragmented governance, particularly in transboundary settings where freshwater resources cross political borders. Federal rivers are transboundary river basins within or shared by a country with a federal political system. In federal political systems, the territorial division of authority creates incentives for local innovation, learning and adaptation; it also creates barriers to cooperation and conflict resolution needed for adaptive capacity across scales. This review examines the relationship between institutional design and adaptive capacity in federal rivers in three steps. First, we review coordination challenges in federal rivers, highlighting such challenges as fundamental for adaptive capacity in multi-jurisdictional settings. Second, we examine institutional responses to these challenges. Finally, we review lessons about institutional design and performance from large-N studies of international and interstate rivers. Systematic efforts are needed to measure and compare institutional design in federal rivers. Such efforts must balance global inventories to measure institutional design variables with in-depth case studies to generate context-sensitive insights about the effectiveness of different approaches as well as the causal mechanisms linking institutional design with social, environmental and economic outcomes
PB Elsevier
SN ISSN 1877-3435 ; ESSN 1877-3443
YR 2016
FD 2016-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18754
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18754
LA eng
NO Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canadian Research Council)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 28 abr 2024