The Diagnostic Water Governance Tool

The Tool supports the implementation of an integrated and adaptive

Water management refers to the activities of analysing and monitoring water resources, as well as developing and implementing measures to keep the state of a water resource within what has been negotiated as desirable bounds (Pahl-Wostl, 2015).

Pahl-Wostl, C. (2015). Water Governance in the Face of Global Change—From Understanding to Transformation. Wiesbaden: Springer International Publishing.

approach based on identified coordination gaps and potential instruments to overcome them. Based on data entered from the respective river basin a “diagnosis” is being given taking into account content variables and coordination deficits. The final output is a “therapy” to remedy identified coordination gaps and case-specific recommendations in form of appropriate coordination instruments.

In many places, water resources are at risk because different types of use are not sufficiently coordinated. The project “Increasing Good

Governance can be defined as the various institutionalised modes of social coordination to produce and implement collectively binding rules, or to provide collective goods (Börzel & Risse, 2010,p. 114).

Börzel, T. A., & Risse, T. (2010). Governance Without a State: Can It Work? Regulation & Governance, 4(2), 113–134. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01076.x

for Achieving the Objectives of Integrated Water Resources Management” (Erhöhung der STEuerungskompetenz zur ERreichung der Ziele eines integrierten Wassermanagements, STEER) explores innovative forms of

Coordination means that different stakeholders (organisations) develop strategies, plans etc. separately, but take into account (inform and/or consider) the work and interests of other relevant stakeholders. Cooperation, by contrast, means the joint elaboration of strategies, plans etc. and even joint action (Margerum & Robinson, 2015; Pahl-Wostl & Lebel, 2011).

Sources:

Margerum, R. D., & Robinson, C. J. (2015). Collaborative Partnerships and the Challenges for Sustainable Water Management. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 12, 53–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2014.09.003

Pahl-Wostl, C., & Lebel, L. (2011). Guidance on the Twin2Go Questionnaire, Version 3. Twin2Go Deliverables. Twin2Go project.

in order to solve such conflicts of use. The focus is on a diagnostic approach, which can be used to investigate typical problem situations and to develop suitable solution strategies.

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