Making water work: intermediating between regional strategy and local practice

Medd, W and Marvin, S 2008, 'Making water work: intermediating between regional strategy and local practice' , Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26 (2) , pp. 280-299.

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Abstract

Since the early 1990s there has been a proliferation of calls for integrated water resource management as a strategy for sustainable water management. While literatures have examined the extent to which institutions can adapt to management defined by hydrological zones, the significance of other sociotechnical spaces to sustainable water management has been overlooked in these debates. In this paper, having demonstrated the hybridity of the hydrological cycle, we argue that more attention needs to be given to the interaction between regional, network, and fluid spatialities in sustainable water management. More specifically, we examine the fluid work of intermediaries in between regional and network spaces in the translation of regional strategies into local practice. We conclude by looking at the implications of understanding the relationship between regions, networks, and fluids for water governance specifically and environmental governance more generally.

Item Type:	Article
Themes:	Built and Human Environment
Schools:	Schools > School of the Built Environment Schools > School of the Built Environment > Centre for Urban Processes, Resilient Infrastructures & Sustainable Environments (UPRISE)
Journal or Publication Title:	Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Publisher:	Pion
Refereed:	Yes
ISSN:	0263-7758
Depositing User:	Users 29196 not found.
Date Deposited:	13 Jul 2011 15:10
Last Modified:	30 Nov 2015 23:59
URI:	http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/16638

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