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A Critical Approach to International Water Management TrendsIntegrated Water Resources Management as a Compromise: Renewing the Water Act in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

A Critical Approach to International Water Management Trends: Integrated Water Resources... [Internationally promoted for decades, integrated water resources management (IRWM) has been considered as an imperative for sustainable water use by Swiss federal authorities since the early 2000s. However, its operationalisation leads us to question the gap vis-à-vis the theoretical model. The analysis of the renewal process of the Water Act in the canton of Fribourg shows that integrated management has to be considered as a regionalised institutional compromise: first, the scope of sectoral integration is not given; secondly, the scale finally adopted does not fit exactly the watershed, even though it is presented as the perfect functional space for regulating water use. Thanks to a historical and comprehensive approach, we strive to overpass “naturalised” and “functionalist” visions of water resources management.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Critical Approach to International Water Management TrendsIntegrated Water Resources Management as a Compromise: Renewing the Water Act in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

Editors: Bréthaut, Christian; Schweizer, Rémi

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN
978-1-137-60085-1
Pages
45 –69
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-60086-8_3
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Internationally promoted for decades, integrated water resources management (IRWM) has been considered as an imperative for sustainable water use by Swiss federal authorities since the early 2000s. However, its operationalisation leads us to question the gap vis-à-vis the theoretical model. The analysis of the renewal process of the Water Act in the canton of Fribourg shows that integrated management has to be considered as a regionalised institutional compromise: first, the scope of sectoral integration is not given; secondly, the scale finally adopted does not fit exactly the watershed, even though it is presented as the perfect functional space for regulating water use. Thanks to a historical and comprehensive approach, we strive to overpass “naturalised” and “functionalist” visions of water resources management.]

Published: Sep 28, 2017

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