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Water Policy in New Caledonia : Participative Co-building of Water Governance in a Decolonization Process / edited by Caroline Lejars, Séverine Bouard

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Global Issues in Water Policy ; 32Publisher: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025Publisher: Cham : Imprint: Springer, 2025Edition: 1st ed. 2025Description: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 270 p. 58 illus., 38 illus. in color.)ISBN:
  • 9783031881961
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9783031881954 | 9783031881978 | 9783031881985 | Erscheint auch als: 9783031881954 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783031881978 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783031881985 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 551.48 23
DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-88196-1Online resources: Summary: Chapter 1. Introduction, Objectives, and Scope -- Part I. Setting up the context -- Chapter 2. Physical context and key water resource issues in New Caledonia -- Chapter 3. The balance between water resources and uses -- Chapter 4. Water quality: trends and challenges -- Chapter 5. Water law and legal pluralism in New Caledonia -- Part II. From water representations to water policy – A look insight customary lands -- Chapter 6. Water tensions and social transformations on customary lands -- Chapter 7. The Five Kanak Waters -- Chapter 8. Water places: from relational ontologies to water governance -- Chapter 9. Water quality on customary lands: An intimate link between humans and their environment -- Part III. The Shared Water Policy and its Implementation -- Chapter 10. From diagnosis to implementation of the Shared Water Policy -- Chapter 11. The VKP Water Management Committee: An inspiring and successful experience for water management and stakeholders’ engagement -- Chapter 12. A multi-level process for policy design and integrated planning -- Part IV. New Futures in Water Policy -- Chapter 13. Governmentality, multi-scales politics and the commons -- Chapter 14. Towards new forms of water governance to improve indigenous inclusion.Summary: In 2018, a few months before the first referendum for full sovereignty, the government of New Caledonia launched the co-design of the country's first water policy based on a broad consultation that involved 1 out of 600 New Caledonians, the locally so-called “Shared Water Policy”. The book both presents and assesses the original and broad participatory process used to build the new water policy. It does so by crossing different points of view (government, local managers and customary authorities). The book is also devoted to bridging the gap between customary land studies and water policy. It seeks a way to weave water representations and customary water management practices into the new policy. This experience in a unique decolonisation complex context will inspire policy makers, academics, managers working on participatory methodologies for more inclusive water policy and governance processes, especially in countries where indigenous populations and legal pluralism orders coexist.PPN: PPN: 1928957544Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-EES | ZDB-2-SXEE
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