ENG ELC 220 Lecture 6:
13 Oct 2020
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Lecture 7: local environmental governance (with emphasis on water governance) This lecture explores various modes of environmental governance at the local level. We discuss decentralization and community-based management as global trends, and present examples from turkey and azerbaijan illustrating the importance of context in determining success or failure of policy innovations. Who is involved and who is in charge: decentralised governance: mainly governance, public-private governance: governments and private actors self-governance: governance plays no or only facilitating role interactive governance: actors from state/market/ civil society. Institutionalising of flutschutzgemeinschaften civic communities responsible for flood preparedness, flood alerts and closing mobile flood doors: quite government-led process, residents involved to some extent but local government clearly in the lead. L2: heleen mees cities and climate change governance. Cities are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change: flood risks, sea level rise. > water can come from 4 sides: risk of heat stress and drought, urban heat island, temperature rise.
