Abstract
Governance is essential to lake basin management, but it is the most challenged and needs increased attention. Lake Basin Governance performance assessment is designed to measure the progress and impacts of policies, institutions and the roles of various actors in ensuring sustainability. It measures the performance of technical/operational, social/networks, and institutional arrangement that make up the socio-ecological system. Governance performance assessment becomes very necessary with over-emphasis of institutions on resources utilization and exploitation. The purpose of this paper is to present a governance performance assessment framework specifically for lake basins. The Adaptive Integrated Lake Basin Management (AILBM) framework is a diagnostic and prescriptive performance assessment tool with an outcome to produce an adaptive and integrative system with equity, inclusiveness, transparency, accountability and flexibility to problem-solving and resilience. A case study on water governance performance assessment of the Songkhla Lake Basin (SLB) in Thailand is provided for illustration and application and indicated a poor performance rating on governance in the Basin, revealing gaps, defects, strengths and weaknesses in the current system, necessary to recommend future improvements.
Highlights
Lake Basin Governance (LBG) is essential to the preservation of the resource-rich socio-ecological system, especially considering the unique and peculiar characteristics of lake basins
A diagnostic assessment of the actors involved in the governance and management revealed
A diagnostic assessment of the actors involved in the governance and management revealed that water management and governance are centrally coordinated from the national government’s that water management and governance are centrally coordinated from the national government’s ministries, which supervise more than 30 departments with various roles in water ministries, which supervise more than 30 departments with various roles in water resources resources management
Summary
Lake Basin Governance (LBG) is essential to the preservation of the resource-rich socio-ecological system, especially considering the unique and peculiar characteristics of lake basins. It is one key aspect in lake studies that has not received the attention it deserves and has fundamentally challenged the sustainability of the world’s lakes, and sadly, often ignored in most management plans. Hydrology 2016, 3, 12 synergistic linkages and inter-connectivity as well as interactions between processes and actors to ensure sustainable governance To achieve this requires a comprehensive and systematic association of all elements (policies, institutions, regulations, actors, resources, ecosystem characteristics and management system) in a consistent manner for decision making and planning. Available online: http://tdri.or.th/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/N37.pdf (accessed on 2 March 2016)
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