Involving local stakeholders in monitoring has the potential to stimulate learning and
improve management responses. However, there is limited understanding about factors …

Wastewater treatment is failing worldwide. Like many parts of the world, Mexico and Latin
America continue to face significant challenges associated with the implementation of …

Until recently, governmental organizations played a dominant and decisive role in natural
resource management. However, an increasing number of studies indicate that this …

Over the previous half century, increased groundwater mining has had significant social and
economic implications that are still going on. Many solutions and frameworks have been …

Adaptive water governance involves collaboration among multiple actors, social learning,
and flexibility to deal with shocks and surprises. Crises thus become a useful context to …

Public trust in water managers is often considered an important precondition for the effective
implementation of sustainable water-management practices. Although it is well known that …

Abstract The Global South is usually underrepresented in comparative water governance
studies. Latin America has abundant water resources but is the most unequal region in …

It has become axiomatic that collective action is core to overcoming commons dilemmas.
However, the popularity of the commons dilemma framing has led to its decoupling from …

Creating institutions to manage shared waterways at the basin scale, instead of as a
patchwork of fragmented political jurisdictions, has long held attraction for water managers …

River basin planning under the European Water Framework Directive (2000/60/CE, WFD)
poses two major challenges to EU countries: coordination among administrative units for …