WICKED WATER PROBLEMS: SOCIOLOGY AND LOCAL WATER ORGANIZATIONS IN ADDRESSING WATER RESOURCES POLICY 1

David M. Freeman

94 citations0/0 files storedJAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Water Governance and Infrastructure Water Resource Management and Quality Environmental Science and Water Management

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Water policy problems are wicked, not in an ethically deplorable sense, but in the sense that they present us with especially difficult challenges of becoming more effective in our interdisciplinary collaboration, of integrating two very different types of knowledge, of working across several socio‐political units of analysis simultaneously, and of better organizing water as a common property resource. Sociology, as a discipline, does not have a particularly rich history of successful interdisciplinary collaboration on water resources research and teaching, but it potentially has a most useful contribution to make by focusing on the analysis of local common property resource organizations that operate in the interface between individual resource users and State‐Federal entities. These organizations (e.g., water user associations, mutual companies, irrigation districts, acequias, conservancy districts) have been the orphans of water policy discourse but their operations are critical to undertaking more effective 21st century social analysis, research work, and action programs. Sociologists who work to better comprehend the operations of, and constraints upon, these organizations build a sociology that can better collaborate with other water‐related disciplines in addressing the challenges posed by the wickedness of our water problems.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 94 citations exist upstream.

References

1990Governing the Commons 1973Dilemmas in a general theory of planning 1994Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources 1995Making the Commons Work: Theory, Practice, and Policy 1988The Question of the Commons: the culture and ecology of communal resources 1992Institutions and collective action : self-governance in irrigation 1970Interdisciplinary Relationships in the Social Sciences.1989Interdisciplinary Analysis and Research: Theory and practice of problem focused Research and Development

Cited by

2011Australian water allocation plans and the sustainability objective—conflicts and conflict-resolution measures 2013Water as life, death, and power: Building an integrated interdisciplinary course combining perspectives from anthropology, biology, and chemistry 2015A case study of strategies for fostering international, interdisciplinary research 2008Wicked problems: Implications for policy and management 2019Socio-scientific research and practice: evaluating outcomes from a transdisciplinary urban water systems project

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.