ESR 11: Assessing the sustainability of water governance systems in global comparison
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Employer: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg |
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Job location: Lüneburg Germany |
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Apply before: 15 Mar 2019 |
Summary
This ESR position will:
Identify ‘success’ and ‘failure’ (in terms of water-related sustainability) of existing water governance institutions through a systematic review of the empirical literature
Analyse a broad range of existing concepts and approaches to water governance as to the institutional building blocks they are made of, with the aim of developing an analytical framework to empirically assess very different water governance institutions
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Host institution: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany
Principal supervisor: Prof. Jens Newig
Co-supervisor: Prof. Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
Non-academic co-supervisor: Dr. Monika Weber-Fahr
Application deadline: 15 March 2020
Starting date: Between 1 May and 1 September 2020
Duration: 3 years
Topic
Numerous approaches exist to sustainably govern the world’s waters. These include participatory planning, privatization, river basin and watershed governance, or water pricing, just to name a few. It is, however, unclear, which of these governance approaches – or combinations thereof – have proven effective in maintaining or restoring environmentally sustainable water resources and ecosystems. This ESR project will contribute to generating both conceptual advances and robust empirical evidence on which approaches work in which contexts towards achieving sustainable water governance. To this end, the project will first review the literature on existing empirical studies on ‘success’ or ‘failure’ of water governance approaches (objective 1). Building on this, the project will seek to analytically dissect existing water governance institutions into ‘building blocks’ (objective 2). Ideally, all water governance institutions can be split up into a finite number of such building blocks. The further empirical analysis (objective 3) will then assess the performance of water governance institutions in selected countries by drawing on existing academic literature, document analysis and key expert interviews. Governance institutions will be analysed according to the building blocks they consist of, allowing for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of which combination of building blocks leads to sustainable outcomes (or not). Results will be discussed with leading experts and practitioners in the field in order to enhance usability and robustness of the research (objective 4).
This ESR position will:
Identify ‘success’ and ‘failure’ (in terms of water-related sustainability) of existing water governance institutions through a systematic review of the empirical literature
Analyse a broad range of existing concepts and approaches to water governance as to the institutional building blocks they are made of, with the aim of developing an analytical framework to empirically assess very different water governance institutions
Empirically assess the performance of existing water governance institutions in approx. 15 countries in different continents through a comparative study, using the evaluative framework developed in (2)
Draw conclusions for existing (combinations of) water governance institutions, in consultation with leading experts and practitioners.
Expected results:
Identification of principal institutional building blocks of existing water governance institutions
Evidence-informed assessment of how (combinations of) governance institutions deliver in terms of water-related sustainability
Knowledge on the influence of context on the performance of water governance institutions.
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