Enhancing Participation and Governance in Water Resources Management

This book describes approaches and techniques for applying public participation to improve water resources management. Water resources management is the aggregate of policies and activities used to provide clean water to meet human needs across jurisdictions and to sustain water-related ecological systems. In this book, Libor Jansky and Juha I. Uitto identify successful mechanisms, approaches, and practices for promoting public involvement in water resources management, including conventional approaches and those based on information technology.

Libor Jansky is senior academic program officer at the United Nations University's Vice Rectorate in Europe. Juha I. Uitto is senior evaluation advisor at the United Nations Development Programme Evaluation Office, New York, USA.