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Water Governance

Course Description

Instructor: Dr. Ali Yousefi

Level: Graduate

IUT Couse Number: 36-18-636

Taught in: Spring

 

Readings

  1. Anderies, J., & Janssen, M. 2016. Sustaining the Commons. Arizona State University.
  2. Ostrom, E. 2005. Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton University Press.
  3. Pahl-Wostl, C. 2015. Water Governance in the Face of Global Change: From Understanding to Transformation. Springer.
  4. Ostrom, E. 2015. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action . Cambridge University Press.
  5. Ostrom, E., Gardner, R., & Walker, J. 1994. Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources. University of Michigan Press.
  6. Young, R.A. and Loomis, J.B., 2014. Determining the economic value of water: concepts and methods. Routledge.

 

Syllabus and Reading

 

TOPICS

READINGS

1

Why Study the Commons?

Chapter 1 in Anderies, J., & Janssen, M. 2016. Sustaining the Commons. Arizona State University.

Hardin, G. 1968. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Science, 162: 1243-1248.

Dietz, T., Ostrom, E., & Stern, P. 2003. “The Struggle to Govern the Commons.” Science. 302: 1907-1910.

2

Definition of Water Governance

Young, O.R., 2009. Governance for sustainable development in a world of rising interdependencies. Governance for the Environment. New perspectives, pp.12-40.

Chapters 2 and 3 in Pahl-Wostl, C. 2015. Water Governance in the Face of Global Change: From Understanding to Transformation. Springer.

3

Challenging the Conventional
Wisdom about Water Management

Chapter 2 in Islam, S., & Susskind, L. 2013. Water Diplomacy: A Negotiated Approach to Managing Complex Water Networks. Routledge.

Global Water Partnership. 2003. Integrated Water Resources Management Toolbox, Version 2. Stockholm: GWP Secretariat.

Biswas, A.K., 2004. Integrated water resources management: a reassessment: a water forum contribution. Water international, 29(2), pp.248-256.

Giordano, M. and Shah, T., 2014. From IWRM back to integrated water resources management. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 30(3), 364-376.

Saravanan, V.S., McDonald, G.T. and Mollinga, P.P., 2009, Critical review of integrated water resources management: moving beyond polarised discourse. Natural Resources Forum, 33(1): 76-86.

4

Water Problems Are Complex

Chapters 2, 3 & 4 in Islam, S., & Susskind, L. 2013. Water Diplomacy: A Negotiated Approach to Managing Complex Water Networks. Routledge.

Mitchell, M., 2009. Complexity: A guided tour. Oxford University Press.          تر جمه 1 ترجمه 2    

Cash, D., Adger, W.N., Berkes, F., Garden, P., Lebel, L., Olsson, P., Pritchard, L. and Young, O., 2006. Scale and cross-scale dynamics: governance and information in a multilevel world. Ecology and society11(2).

Gibson, C.C., Ostrom, E. and Ahn, T.K., 2000. The concept of scale and the human dimensions of global change: a survey. Ecological economics32(2), pp.217-239.

5

A Diagnostic Approach for Going Beyond Panaceas

Ostrom, E. 2005. Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton University Press, p. 27.

Pahl-Wostl, C., 2015. Water Governance in the Face of Global Change: from Understanding to Transformation. Springer, p 29.

Ostrom, E., Janssen, M.A. and Anderies, J.M., 2007. Going beyond panaceas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(39), pp.15176-15178.

Ostrom, E., 2007. A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas. Proceedings of the national Academy of sciences, 104(39), pp.15181-15187.

Young, O.R., 2008. Building regimes for socioecological systems: institutional diagnostics. Institutions and environmental change: Principal findings, applications, and research frontiers, pp.115-144.

Young, O.R., 2002. Usable knowledge: design principles and institutional diagnostics. The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change: Fit, Interplay, and Scale. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Ragin, C.C., 2014. The comparative method: Moving beyond qualitative and quantitative strategies. Univ of California Press.         ترجمه

Binder, C.R., Hinkel, J., Bots, P.W. and Pahl-Wostl, C., 2013. Comparison of frameworks for analyzing social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society, 18(4).

6

 Institutions Rules, Norms and Shared Strategies

Chapters 2, 10 & 11 in Anderies, J. and Janssen, M., 2016. Sustaining the commons. Arizona State University.

Chapter 5 in Ostrom, E. 2005. Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton University Press.

Frantz, C. K., & Siddiki, S. (2022). Institutional Grammar. Springer International Publishing.

Institutional Grammar Research Initiative

7

WASH Governance

Lockwood, H., & Smits, S. (2011). Supporting rural water supply: moving towards a service delivery approach. Practical Action Publishing.

Carter, R. C. (2021). Rural Community Water Supply: Sustainable Services for All. Practical Action Publishing.

Sutton, S., & Butterworth, J. (2021). Self-supply: Filling the gaps in public water supply provision. Practical Action Publishing.

The WASHREG Approach: Methodology

Regulation in the water and sanitation sector based on the WASHREG methodology

Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN)

8

A Methodological Framework for Empirical Analysis

Pahl-Wostl, C., Knieper, C., Lukat, E., Meergans, F., Schoderer, M., Schütze, N., ... & Thiel, A. (2020). Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges: A framework of analysis. Environmental Science & Policy, 107, 23-35.

Pahl-Wostl, C., Dombrowsky, I., Knieper, C., Krüger, I., Lenschow, A., Lukat, E., Meergans, F., Schoderer, M., Schütze, N., Schweigatz, D., Stein, U., Thiel, A., Tröltzsch, J., Vidaurre, R. (2019). Hypotheses Operationalization Synthesis Document. Appendix 2 of product P1.1 “Conceptual and Methodological Framework of the STEER Project”. Osnabrück University, Germany.

Yousefi, A., Knieper, C., & Pahl-Wostl, C. (2020). Restoring the Zayandeh Rud River: addressing the political causes of water shortage in Iran. German Development Institute, Bonn, Germany. Doi: 10.23661/bp9.2021.v1.1

 

Prerequisites: 

No Prerequisite

Grading Policy: 

ACTIVITIES

PERCENTAGES

Policy Text

20%

Presentation

10%

Final Exam

70%

Time: 

 1 sessions / week

Monday 8:00- 10:00 AM (Class 7)

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