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Water Diplomacy from a Duck's Perspective: Wildlife as Stakeholders in Water Management
Contemporary water management strategies call for the inclusion of ecological research in the decision‐making process and emphasize environmentally sustainable management solutions. Most ecological information used in water management shares two problematic characteristics; 1) simplistic, phenomenological approaches and aggregated data that may not properly describe system behavior, and 2) a “zero‐sum” perspective treating ecological water needs as constraints to management. We argue that the newly devised Water Diplomacy Framework (WDF) can help overcome these shortcomings. We also provide a simple and intuitive method for integrating ecological factors into the WDF. We suggest that treating ecological phenomena as “surrogate stakeholders” in water negotiations increases opportunities for discovering mutual‐gains solutions and encourages a hypothesis‐based approach to research on the ecology of water management. By differentiating between the “positions” and “interests” of ecological stakeholder surrogates, decision‐makers can make greater use of the potential added value of ecosystem services in water management and avoid costly misunderstandings of the behavior of relevant ecological systems. We outline how the WDF can be applied to better integrate ecological factors into water management, and show how our approach could create synergies between endangered waterbird conservation and sustainable water management on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
Water Diplomacy from a Duck's Perspective: Wildlife as Stakeholders in Water Management
Contemporary water management strategies call for the inclusion of ecological research in the decision‐making process and emphasize environmentally sustainable management solutions. Most ecological information used in water management shares two problematic characteristics; 1) simplistic, phenomenological approaches and aggregated data that may not properly describe system behavior, and 2) a “zero‐sum” perspective treating ecological water needs as constraints to management. We argue that the newly devised Water Diplomacy Framework (WDF) can help overcome these shortcomings. We also provide a simple and intuitive method for integrating ecological factors into the WDF. We suggest that treating ecological phenomena as “surrogate stakeholders” in water negotiations increases opportunities for discovering mutual‐gains solutions and encourages a hypothesis‐based approach to research on the ecology of water management. By differentiating between the “positions” and “interests” of ecological stakeholder surrogates, decision‐makers can make greater use of the potential added value of ecosystem services in water management and avoid costly misunderstandings of the behavior of relevant ecological systems. We outline how the WDF can be applied to better integrate ecological factors into water management, and show how our approach could create synergies between endangered waterbird conservation and sustainable water management on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
Water Diplomacy from a Duck's Perspective: Wildlife as Stakeholders in Water Management
van Rees, Charles (Autor:in) / Reed, J. Michael (Autor:in)
Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education ; 155 ; 28-42
01.07.2015
15 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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