Policy Entrepreneurs,Issue Experts,and Water Rights Policy Change in Colorado

Policy entrepreneurs can influence policy changes and decisions. These people invest their time, knowledge, and skills into promoting policies with which they agree. This paper investigates the influence that entrepreneurs had in the case of recreational water rights policy in Colorado to build a model of policy entrepreneurship. Almost 20 Colorado communities have constructed white‐water kayak courses to boost their local economies. In twelve of these communities, construction was followed by community pursuit of a new form of water right—the recreational in‐channel diversion. This case study is relevant to many areas of environmental policy and management where policies are transitioning from traditional consumptive uses of the resource to nonconsumptive uses. This policy change was not a given in Colorado communities, with recreational water rights requiring significant investments of community resources. These research findings conclude that policy entrepreneurs were influential to policy change, but the most important actors were expert entrepreneurs who hold expertise in water resource matters.     

Stakeholder involvement in collaborative regulatory processes: Using automated coding to track attendance and actions

Regulation increasingly mandates collaborative approaches to increase stakeholder input and streamline approval processes. However, understanding how to maintain stakeholder involvement over the course of a long collaborative process is vital to optimize effectiveness. This paper observes more than 700 stakeholders involved in developing and implementing a dam operating license over 16 years. We use text mining and Bayesian hierarchical modeling to observe meeting attendance and recorded actions in meeting minutes. We find that involvement decreased after the initial planning phase, but steadily increased through license development and implementation. After the regulatory mandate to consult with external stakeholders dissolved, overall attendance declined while attendance stability increased, meaning that the non‐mandatory stage involved a smaller cadre of dedicated actors. This indicates that high‐performing mandated stakeholder involvement processes rely on a constrained group of conveners to sustain interaction and have less turnover than what might be expected given existing evidence from grassroots involvement; assumptions about group dynamics based on involvement in grassroots processes may lead to improper predictions about who will participate, and how, in processes where stakeholder involvement is mandated.     

基于民法的水权问题思考

随着经济社会的不断进步和发展,对于人类赖以生存的水资源实施依法开发利用保护,在可持续发展战略中愈加体现出重要的意义和作用.特别是施行新的《水法》、《物权法》,使我国水权地位得以确立和发生变化,充分反映了现代水法的发展趋势.水权作为自然资源中的一项重要的法权,在其法理上与其他法律,特别是民法有着紧密的内在联系,在立法和实践中也亟待进一步调整和完善,以增强和提高水权的民法保护效力.     

城乡统筹、合理配置再生水资源用于农业的对策建议

该文通过分析中国农田污灌现状及其危害,揭示“城市再生水利用率”具体指标实现上仍存在的结构性矛盾,论述在没有充足常规水源的情况下,开发利用再生水农灌是农田生态修复的可行措施,提出把再生水回用农灌作为各级政府统筹城乡发展的重要内容及其可行性建议,以实现水资源的优化配置和循环利用,保证社会主义新农村又好又快地建设。     

农田水利建设是农业增产之本

该文阐明了农田水利设施的基础性地位和作用,以及加快灌区建设与改造的必要性,在对中国农田水利基础设施薄弱的原因进行深入分析的基础上,提出了加快农田水利工程建设与发展的意见和建议。     

Intersections of gender and water: comparative approaches to everyday gendered negotiations of water access in underserved areas of Accra,Ghana and Cape Town,South Africa

A large and growing body of literature suggests that women and men often have differentiated relationships to water access, uses, knowledges, governance, and experiences. From a feminist political ecology perspective, these relationships can be mediated by gendered labour practices (within the household, at the community level, or within the workplace), socio-cultural expectations (e.g. related to notions of masculinity and femininity), as well as intersectional differences (e.g. race, income, and so forth). While these relationships are complex, multiple, and vary by context, it is frequently argued that due to responsibility for domestic provision or other pathways, women may be particularly affected if water quality or access is compromised. This paper reports on a statistical evaluation of a 478 household survey conducted in underserved areas of Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa in early 2012. Interrogating our survey results in the light of the ideas of gender differentiated access, uses, knowledges, governance, and experiences of water, we open up considerations related to the context of each of our study sites, and also invite possible revisions and new directions for these debates. In particular, we are interested in the instances where differences among male and female respondents were less pronounced than expected. Highlighting these unexpected results we find it helpful to draw attention to methods – in particular we argue that a binary male–female approach is not that meaningful for the analysis, and instead, gender analysis requires some attention to intersectional differences (e.g. homeownership, employment, or age). We also make the case for the importance of combining qualitative and quantitative work to understand these relationships, as well as opening up what might be learned by more adequately exploring the resonances and tensions between these approaches.     

Space,discourse and environmental peacebuilding

The concept of environmental peacebuilding is becoming increasingly prominent among peacebuilding scholars and practitioners. This study provides a brief overview about the various discussions contributing to our understanding of environmental peacebuilding and concludes that questions of space have hardly been explicitly considered in these debates. Drawing on discourse-analytic spatial theory, I discuss how the social construction of scale, place and boundaries are relevant for environmental peacebuilding processes and outcomes. This theoretical approach is then applied to the Good Water Neighbours project, which aims at improving the regional water situation and at building peace between Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians. The results suggest that discursive constructions of space are important in facilitating, impeding or shaping environmental peacebuilding practices. Analyses of environmental peacebuilding, but also of peacebuilding more general, are therefore encouraged to draw more strongly on the findings of spatial theory.     

三河源水源地生态重建的依据及措施建议

三河源水源地生态重建是一项功在当代、利在千秋的公益事业。只要科学规划、因地制宜,合理地开发利用自然,协调好生态环境建设与区域水资源平衡的关系,尽快转变生产生活方式,适度控制人口并做好生态移民工作,六盘山地区的生态会逐步恢复。     

加强浙江省水资源管理和水资源费征收的思考

水资源是人们日常生活的必需品,是经济发展的基本要素和基础资源。随着经济社会的快速发展,水资源短缺、水环境恶化等问题日益突出,可开发利用的水资源越来越少。因此,全面推行依法治水,加强水资源的统一管理,加大水资源费征收力度,加强污染治理,建立节水型社会,已显得十分迫切。本文全面分析了浙江省水资源的现状和存在的主要问题,并对加强水资源管理和水资源费征收提出了建议。     

污水处理系统在城市可持续发展中的作用

该文通过对城市自然属性和社会属性的探讨，分析了城市不可持续发展问题的产生原因，剖析了当前中国城市社会发展的阶段性特征，分析总结了中国水污染控制技术与城市污水处理系统的发展方向。