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Networks in Water Governance

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Editors:
  1. Manuel Fischer

    1. Department of Environmental Social Sciences, Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland

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  2. Karin Ingold

    1. Institute of Political Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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  • Discusses the application of network analysis to water governance
  • Introduces 8 water related case studies by leading experts in the field
  • Provides an overview of key water governance concepts and issues

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    • Manuel Fischer, Karin Ingold
    Pages 1-15

  3. Conceptual Reflections About Water, Governance, and Networks

    • Manuel Fischer, Karin Ingold
    Pages 17-49

  4. Network Segregation and Water Governance: The Case of the Spiny Lobster Initiative

    • Matthew Robbins, Mark Lubell
    Pages 51-85

  5. Network Embeddedness and the Rate of Water Cooperation and Conflict

    • James Hollway
    Pages 87-113

  6. Identifying Subsystems and Crucial Actors in Water Governance: Analysis of Bipartite Actor—Issue Networks

    • Mario Angst, Manuel Fischer
    Pages 115-143

  7. What Drives the Formation and Maintenance of Interest Coalitions in Water Governance Forums?

    • María Mancilla García, Örjan Bodin
    Pages 145-172

  8. Modeling Environmental Governance in the Lake Tahoe Basin: A Multiplex Network Approach

    • Elizabeth A. Koebele, Stephanie Bultema, Christopher M. Weible
    Pages 173-202

  9. Collaboration in Water Quality Management: Differences in Micro-Pollutant Management Along the River Rhine

    • Laura Mae Jacqueline Herzog, Karin Ingold
    Pages 203-238

  10. Analyzing Stakeholders’ Network to Water Resources Co-management at a Watershed Scale: A Case Study from the Taleghan Watershed in Iran

    • Fariba Ebrahimiazarkharan, Mehdi Ghorbani, Arash Malekian, Hans Th. A. Bressers
    Pages 239-265

  11. Institutional Design and Complexity: Protocol Network Structure in Response to Different Collective-Action Dilemmas

    • Tomás Olivier, Tyler A. Scott, Edella Schlager
    Pages 267-293

  12. Comparing Centrality Across Policy Networks and Media Narratives

    • Emily V. Bell, Adam Douglas Henry
    Pages 295-320

  13. Conclusions

    • Karin Ingold, Manuel Fischer
    Pages 321-333
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About this book

With the consequences of climate change and biodiversity loss becoming more and more apparent, both the protection of water resources and water-related ecosystems as well as protection from water, that is flood protection policies, have become increasingly important. 


This book explores the latest applications of network analysis concepts and measures to the study and practice of water governance. Given the holistic complexity of water governance, it covers individual water governance aspects such as flood protection and fisheries, as well as overarching concepts like integrated water management and social-ecological interactions. The book provides an overview of current water governance issues, network analytic concepts as well as implications for practice. The main body of the text is made up of eight case studies by world-leading environmental governance scholars, each of which addresses one water-related challenge by applying a variety of networkapproaches. The first part of the book highlights network dispersion and fragmentation, the second focuses on how such fragmentation in networks can be overcome and the third deals with specific roles of actors in networks. 


This collection is a key resource for scholars and practitioners interested in water governance all over the world. It provides readers with an overview of the potential of network analytic concepts for research on complex governance problems. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Environmental Social Sciences, Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland

    Manuel Fischer

  • Institute of Political Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Karin Ingold

About the editors

Manuel Fischer is a research group leader at the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute for Water Science and Technology (Eawag) and a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research deals with water and environmental governance and policy-making. 


Karin Ingold is a professor at the Institute of Political Science and the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She is also affiliated to the Environmental Social Science Department at the Swiss Federal Institute for Water Science and Technology (Eawag). She is interested in policy design and politics of climate change, water and energy. 



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