We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Ethics and Water Governance.
- Authors
Groenfeldt, David; Schmidt, Jeremy J.
- Abstract
Ethics and values are important dimensions of water governance. We show how a "values approach" contributes to an understanding of global water governance, and how it complements other perspectives on governance, namely management, institutional capacity, and social-ecological systems. We connect these other approaches to their own value systems and the ethical attitudes they engender. We then offer a way to explicitly incorporate, and where necessary adjudicate, competing value systems through a values-based approach to governance. A case of the Santa Fe River in New Mexico, USA illustrates how value systems are reflected in water policies and how these values affect governance priorities, such as in environmental flows. The values-based approach clarifies tacit values and creates space to align local values with those needed for effective water governance at the global level.
- Subjects
SANTA Fe (N.M.); ETHICS research; WATER laws; WATER management; WATER efficiency
- Publication
Ecology & Society, 2013, Vol 18, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1708-3087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5751/ES-04629-180114