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- Title
WATER, POLITICS, AND IDEOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW OF WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT.
- Authors
Doerksen, Harvey
- Abstract
The management of water resources certainly is one of the most frustrating kinds of management conceivable. Water resources management cannot be viewed as the management of people within an organization toward particular objectives, for this is but a small part of the total water management process. Water resources managers typically have only partial control over the object of their concern, the water that they must manage. Therefore, water administration encompasses conflict management, interagency coordination, and planning in a setting of uncertainty. The physical attributes of water create substantial uncertainties for the decision maker that is only partially reduced by technological advances. The highly diverse political and legal system for managing water resources creates uncertainties, which defy comprehensive management. The managers themselves bring to the decision-making arena preconceived notions of public interest based on professional training, agency traditions, and ideological value frameworks. All these factors work against attempts at meaningful coordination and cooperative decision-making. This is an administrative world set apart from most.
- Subjects
NATURAL resources management; WATER management; DECISION making; WATER; IDEOLOGY; CRISIS management; POLITICAL planning; BUREAUCRACY; MANAGEMENT science
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1977, Vol 37, Issue 5, p444
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/974689