03 Feb 2017
Governance // Key Issues of Interdisciplinary NEXUS Governance Analyses: Lessons Learned from Research on Integrated Water Resources Management
By Nina Hagemann and Sabrina Kirschke. Governance has become a cornerstone in addressing complex linkages between multiple resources such as water, energy, and food. However, contributions of governance research in interdisciplinary research projects are either lacking or highly controversial. Drawing on Integrated Water Resources Management-related experiences of German research projects in emerging and developing countries, we demonstrate how to strengthen Nexus-related governance analyses.
There has to be a stronger focus on the analyses of existing and useful governance strategies as well as of conditions for governance transitions; governance analyses should refer to different types of problems, instead of only focusing on single cases and abstract analyses; and answers must be based on a more elaborate practice of inter- and transdisciplinary research. These suggestions should be implemented on the level of single researchers, but should also require incentives on an institutional level.
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- Introduction
- Which Questions? Analyses beyond Simple Descriptions and a Science-Policy Interface
- Which Answers? Explanations and Solutions between Specificity and Abstraction
- Which Cooperations? Inter- and Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Governance Research
- The Three Facets of Strengthening NEXUS Governance Research
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January 2017In
Resources 2017, 6 (1), 9; doi:10.3390/resources6010009