９５：IWRMの限界という報告（ブラジル）

暫くトルコの回顧録が続いたので本題に戻そう。持続的解決というテーマでＩＷＲＭを評価するというアプローチがあり以前紹介したと思う。そのアプローチを推進する団体から最新の論文集が届き内容を見て驚きだ。タイトルがＩＷＲＭ実践の限界だからだ。

下記に要旨を。

The limits of integrated water resources management: a case study of Brazil's Paraiba do Sul River Basin

Antonio Ioris
Geography and Environment, School of Geosciences, Aberdeen University, Elphinstone Road, Old Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland AB24 3UF UK

The transition to water sustainability involves challenging questions about problem assessment, stakeholder involvement, and response coordination. To overcome these difficulties, new approaches have been developed to inform regulatory changes and to help to improve the level of water sustainability. One of the preferred methods is integrated water resources management (IWRM) that combines different aspects and a plurality of goals associated with water use and conservation. However, important obstacles remain in the way of IWRM and, ultimately, water sustainability. A case study in the Para兊a do Sul River Basin in the southeastern region of Brazil illustrates the multiple barriers to appropriate integration of socioeconomic considerations into the sustainable management of water systems. The opportunity to improve environmental conditions and to engage local stakeholders has been frustrated by the contradictory directions of regulatory reforms. On one hand, IWRM-informed policies have introduced flexible instruments of water regulation and pushed for the reorganization of the river-basin committee. On the other hand, the focus has been restricted to technical and managerial solutions that tend to ignore the influence of social inequalities and political asymmetries and, as a consequence, undermine water sustainability.

過去の事例を「強引に」成功事例に仕立て上げまとめても将来のgood practiceの参考にはならいし、問題点を正直ベースで明らかにすると意外と参考になると思う。

１ヵ月後にイスタンブールでＩＷＲＭハンドブックなどが公表されるという。利用されるものであってほしい？！中身を見るのが楽しみだ。