Abstract
Mongruel, R., J. Prou, J. Ballé-Béganton, M. Lample, A. Vanhoutte-Brunier, H. Réthoret, J. Pérez Agúndez, F. Vernier, P. Bordenave, and C. Bacher. 2011. Modeling soft institutional change and the improvement of freshwater governance in the coastal zone. Ecology and Society 16(4): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04294-160415
Highlights
Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) takes place within the broader framework of environmental policies that target sustainable development, forming part of regional multi-objective policies such as Integrated Coastal Zone Management
We have constructed an analytical framework that combines the ecosystem services approach with the institutional analysis of common-pool resources, and have developed an integrated simulation tool based on the system dynamic modeling approach
Limitation of crisis events Reachable discharge thresholds (RDTs) are always assumed to be achieved during winter; the period of low water flow begins on April 1 and may last until the end of December
Summary
Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) takes place within the broader framework of environmental policies that target sustainable development, forming part of regional multi-objective policies such as Integrated Coastal Zone Management. IWRM is first of all a matter of “good governance” (Lundqvist 2004:414), which includes building social agreements on rules and property rights, and an administrative and enforcement structure (Rogers and Hall 2003). River catchments and their multiple uses are typical examples of social-ecological systems whose sustainability assessment requires integrated ecological, economic, and institutional approaches that take account of institutional change (Ostrom 1995, Holling et al 2002). The focus is on the analytical framework and the integrated simulation model that have been built to explore institutional change for improving freshwater governance in the coastal zone
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