TY - CHAP
T1 - Rethinking integrated water resources management
T2 - Towards water and food security through adaptive management
AU - López-Gunn, Elena
AU - Akhmouch, Aziza
AU - Aldaya, Maite M.
AU - De Linaje, Virginia Alonso
AU - Ballestero, Maureen
AU - Bea, Manuel
AU - Hirata, Ricardo
AU - Kuroiwa, Julio M.
AU - Mayor, Beatriz
AU - Perez, Lorena
AU - Chang, Patricia Phumpiu
AU - Scott, Christopher
AU - Villarroya, Fermín
AU - Zorrilla-Miras, Pedro
AU - Jacobi, Pedro Roberto
AU - Suarez, Andrea
AU - Toto, Roberto Constantino
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 The Botín Foundation.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Yet, due to the rapidly changing times we are currently immersed in, the lifespan of concepts and paradigms is also put to the test more qUickly. According to Kuhn (1962), scientific progress is the result of ‘development by accumulation’, i.e. when normal science is interrupted by periods of revolutionary science. The IWRM paradigm is therefore in a state of flux (GWP, 2012; L6pez-Gunn et aI., 2013). This chapter aims to identify new trends and directions, as well as potential changes in its conceptual basis, particularly from fast-emerging complementary concepts such as water security (GWP /TAC, 2000; Grey and Sadoff, 2007; Pochat, 2008; GWP, 2010; Cook and Bakker, 2012; UN Water, 2013) analysed in Chapter 6. Along these lines, are there enough anomalies in the IWRM paradigm to warrant major changes? This chapter will argue that in order to ‘speed up’ the implementation of IWRM it is fundamental to ask new questions about its main tenets. The chapter analyses and evaluates the main ingredients of the IWRM paradigm, looking at a) the integration of resources, b) of sectors and c) across organizations. IWRM acquires real added value once a series of clear and specific policy goals are set, e.g. those provided by water security or the upcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on water (Sachs, 2012) that in 2015 will effectively replace the merely target-oriented Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
AB - Yet, due to the rapidly changing times we are currently immersed in, the lifespan of concepts and paradigms is also put to the test more qUickly. According to Kuhn (1962), scientific progress is the result of ‘development by accumulation’, i.e. when normal science is interrupted by periods of revolutionary science. The IWRM paradigm is therefore in a state of flux (GWP, 2012; L6pez-Gunn et aI., 2013). This chapter aims to identify new trends and directions, as well as potential changes in its conceptual basis, particularly from fast-emerging complementary concepts such as water security (GWP /TAC, 2000; Grey and Sadoff, 2007; Pochat, 2008; GWP, 2010; Cook and Bakker, 2012; UN Water, 2013) analysed in Chapter 6. Along these lines, are there enough anomalies in the IWRM paradigm to warrant major changes? This chapter will argue that in order to ‘speed up’ the implementation of IWRM it is fundamental to ask new questions about its main tenets. The chapter analyses and evaluates the main ingredients of the IWRM paradigm, looking at a) the integration of resources, b) of sectors and c) across organizations. IWRM acquires real added value once a series of clear and specific policy goals are set, e.g. those provided by water security or the upcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on water (Sachs, 2012) that in 2015 will effectively replace the merely target-oriented Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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U2 - 10.4324/9781315883137-31
DO - 10.4324/9781315883137-31
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85075571990
SN - 9780415713689
SP - 385
EP - 418
BT - Water for Food Security and Well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -