Water and ecological resource governance: the GBB context

Global Water Governance in the Context of Global and Multilevel Governance: Its Need, Form, and Challenges

To complement this Special Feature on global water governance, we focused on a generic challenge at the global level, namely, the degree to which water issues need to be dealt with in a centralized, concentrated, and hierarchical manner. We examined water ecosystem services and their impact on human well-being, the role of policies, indirect and direct drivers in influencing these services, and...

Modeling governance and water pollution using the institutional ecological economic framework

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper investigates the effect of governance on levels of water pollution for all industrial activities as well as by some specific industry category in a sample of OECD economies. Using an institutional ecological economic conceptual framework, the effects of several measures of governance are empirically examined. Our findings reveal that the rule of law, regulatory ...

Governance matters: an ecological association between governance and child mortality

BACKGROUND Governance of a country may have widespread effects on the health of its population, yet little is known about the effect of governance on child mortality in a country that is undergoing urbanization, economic development, and disease control. METHODS We obtained indicators of six dimensions of governance (perceptions of voice and accountability, political stability and absence of ...

Towards Understanding the Scalar Re- Organisation of Natural Resource Governance: Factors Derived from Water Governance in Spain, Portugal and Germany

Governance of natural resource

The concept of good governance has increasingly come to be seen as an essential ingredient of principles guiding natural resource management. Governance is a term that does not lend itself to an easy definition. Perspectives on debates in governance have varied; however, essentially questions of governance of natural resources revolve around such issues as improving the effectiveness of the bur...