Governance of a Complex System : Water Technical Report
- Author
- Elizabeth Eppel
- Year
- 2014
- Publisher / Organisation
- Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
- Pages
- 52
- Keywords
- water
- Summary
- Fresh water is a life-enabling resource as well as the source of spiritual, social and economic wellbeing and development. It is continuously renewed by the Earth’s natural recycling systems using heat from the sun to evaporate and purify, and then rain to replenish supplies. For thousands of years people have benefited from these systems with little concern for their ability to keep up with human population and economic development. Rapid increases in population and economic activity have brought concern for how these systems interact with human social and economic systems to centre stage this century in the guise of a focus on water governance