Reconceptualising water quality governance to incorporate knowledge and values: Case studies from Australian and Brazilian Indigenous communities

This paper examines the significance of knowledge and values for water quality and its governance. Modernist approaches to the governance of water quality in rivers and lakes need to be reconceptualised and overhauled. The problems include: perceiving water only as a physical and chemical liquid,...

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Main Authors: Kate A. Berry, Sue Jackson, Laurel Saito, Louis Forline
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Water Alternatives Association 2018-02-01
Series:Water Alternatives
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Online Access:http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol11/v11issue1/408-a11-1-3/file