Collaboration and integrated water resources management: A literature review

• Author: Victor Galvez,Rodrigo Rojas
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/wwp2.12013
• Published date: 01 November 2019
• Date: 01 November 2019

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DOI: 10.1002/wwp2.12013

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Collaboration and integrated water resources

management: A literature review

VictorGalvez1*

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RodrigoRojas2

*Now at: Fundación CSIRO Chile Research, Land and Water, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile

1Integrated Water Resources Management

Program, International WaterCentre,

Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland,

Australia

2CSIRO Land and Water. EcoSciences

Precinct, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Correspondence

Victor Galvez, Integrated Water Resources

Management Program, International

WaterCentre, Griffith University, Brisbane,

Queensland, Australia.

Email: v.galvezorellana@uq.net.au

Abstract

Collaboration has been widely recognized as a critical

driver for the achievement of Integrated Water Resources

Management (IWRM) outcomes; aiming at safeguard-

ing economic, social, and environmental interests within

a basin. This paper reviews research on collaboration and

its relationship with IWRM. It focuses on the following

aspects: (a) when collaboration is needed; (b) frameworks

of collaboration; (c) benefits and costs; (d) stakeholder en-

gagement and collaboration; and (e) stakeholder engage-

ment mechanisms for an IWRM. This research reinforces

that collaboration has been recognized internationally

by multiple agencies and authors as a critical element for

IWRM. However, most of the research on collaboration

has been focused more on qualitative rather than quantita-

tive aspects, with a special emphasis on benefits over costs.

Therefore, future research can further analyze the costs and

benefits under a quantitative perspective, in order to evalu-

ate and understand the impact of a collaborative process and

support decisions about to what extent collaboration should

be undertaken.

KEYWORDS

collaborative water governance, IWRM, stakeholder collaboration,

stakeholder engagement, water management