Water Governance in OECD Countries.

Cover -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1: Public Governance and Water Policies: An Innovative Multi-level Approach -- Introduction -- Improving water governance: A key topic in the political agenda -- Overview of water governance concepts, definitions and initiatives -- Improving public governance of water policy: scope of the report and methodology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Mapping Institutional Roles and Responsibilities -- Introduction -- OECD survey on water governance -- Institutional mapping of water roles and responsibilities at central government level -- Institutional mapping of water roles and responsibilities at sub-national government level -- Main conclusions from OECD countries' institutional organisation of water policy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Challenges to Co-ordinating Water Policies Across Ministries and Levels of Government -- Introduction -- Methodology for evaluating governance challenges in OECD countries' water policy making -- A tentative classification of OECD countries' multi-level governance challenges in water policy -- Institutional fragmentation: An application of the Multi-level Governance Framework in selected OECD metropolitan regions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Multi-level Co-ordination of Water Policies -- Introduction -- Governance instruments for managing mutual dependencies in the water sector -- Institutional mechanisms for upper horizontal co-ordination of water policy -- Co-ordinating water policies between levels of government and across sub-national actors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Final Considerations for Water Policy Governance: Preliminary Guidelines -- Findings of the report.

Lessons from OECD experience in the governance of water policy -- Envisioning long-term strategies: preliminary guidelines for effective management of multi-level governance -- Bibliography -- Annex 5.A1 -- Chapter 6: Country Profiles -- Australia -- Belgium (Flanders) -- Belgium (Wallonia) -- Canada -- Chile -- France -- Greece -- Israel -- Italy -- Japan -- Korea -- Mexico -- Netherlands -- New Zealand -- Portugal -- Spain -- United Kingdom (England and Wales) -- United States (Colorado).

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