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Allocating responsibility for environmental risks: A comparative analysis of examples from water governance
Author(s) -
Doorn Neelke
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
integrated environmental assessment and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.665
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1551-3793
pISSN - 1551-3777
DOI - 10.1002/ieam.1799
Subject(s) - corporate governance , action (physics) , collective action , business , environmental planning , distribution (mathematics) , environmental governance , environmental resource management , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental economics , political science , environmental science , economics , law , finance , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , politics
The focus of the present study is on the allocation of responsibilities for addressing environmental risks in transboundary water governance. Effective environmental management in transboundary situations requires coordinated and cooperative action among diverse individuals and organizations. Currently, little insight exists on how to foster collective action such that individuals and organizations take the responsibility to address transboundary environmental risks. On the basis of 4 cases of transboundary water governance, it will be shown how certain allocation principles are more likely to encourage cooperative action. The main lesson from these case studies is that the allocation of responsibilities should be seen as a risk distribution problem, including considerations of effectiveness, efficiency, and fairness. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2017;13:371–375. © 2016 SETAC