Discovering the Political Implications of Coproduction in Water Governance
This paper asks what lessons can be learned from experiences with coproduction in water governance. For this, we review a comprehensive corpus of articles in the field of water governance that relies on the term. We find that there are radically different understandings of what coproduction means in...
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| description | This paper asks what lessons can be learned from experiences with coproduction in water governance. For this, we review a comprehensive corpus of articles in the field of water governance that relies on the term. We find that there are radically different understandings of what coproduction means in different branches of the water governance literature. Through this review, we demonstrate how and why coproduction needs to be analyzed for its political implications. Despite being timely and pressing, these questions are not addressed in a sufficient way by the scholarly debate on coproduction. In order to fill this knowledge gap, we first distinguish different historical traditions of coproduction and then explore their political implications along three questions: The “why?”, the “who?”, and the “how?”. We show that these questions find different answers not just between but also within different traditions of using the term. After describing and contrasting these variants, we conclude by summarizing the main lessons from our review and by identifying questions which call for future research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fbaaf64c130a4bb89ba21348d29086822022-12-22T03:36:55ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412018-10-011010147510.3390/w10101475w10101475Discovering the Political Implications of Coproduction in Water GovernanceRobert Lepenies0Frank Hüesker1Silke Beck2Marcela Brugnach3Department of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, GermanyDepartment of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, GermanyDepartment of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, GermanyWater Management, Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente. Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB Enschede, The NetherlandsThis paper asks what lessons can be learned from experiences with coproduction in water governance. For this, we review a comprehensive corpus of articles in the field of water governance that relies on the term. We find that there are radically different understandings of what coproduction means in different branches of the water governance literature. Through this review, we demonstrate how and why coproduction needs to be analyzed for its political implications. Despite being timely and pressing, these questions are not addressed in a sufficient way by the scholarly debate on coproduction. In order to fill this knowledge gap, we first distinguish different historical traditions of coproduction and then explore their political implications along three questions: The “why?”, the “who?”, and the “how?”. We show that these questions find different answers not just between but also within different traditions of using the term. After describing and contrasting these variants, we conclude by summarizing the main lessons from our review and by identifying questions which call for future research.http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/10/10/1475coproductionstakeholder participationwater governancecomplexityintegrated managementadaptive managementpolycentric regimestransformation towards sustainabilitypolitics of water |
| spellingShingle | Robert Lepenies Frank Hüesker Silke Beck Marcela Brugnach Discovering the Political Implications of Coproduction in Water Governance Water coproduction stakeholder participation water governance complexity integrated management adaptive management polycentric regimes transformation towards sustainability politics of water |
| title | Discovering the Political Implications of Coproduction in Water Governance |
| title_full | Discovering the Political Implications of Coproduction in Water Governance |
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| title_short | Discovering the Political Implications of Coproduction in Water Governance |
| title_sort | discovering the political implications of coproduction in water governance |
| topic | coproduction stakeholder participation water governance complexity integrated management adaptive management polycentric regimes transformation towards sustainability politics of water |
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