Bøger af Susana Neto

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to New Water Policy and Practice Journal: a platform for the world's emerging water leaders and thinkers. Sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization and supported by a dynamic team which includes a nine member International Advisory Board and over 50 editors from more than 25 different countries, New Water Policy and Practice Journal is an online peer-reviewed open access journal, followed by hard copy, at least twice per year. Additional special issues will be published on an ad-hoc basis. All editions will feature foundational contributions from internationally recognised water leaders, together with submissions expressing new ideas from the world's young water professionals and emerging water leaders. With these first opinion editorials we hope that the intentions of New Water Policy and Practice Journal are clear and inspirational: to encourage and drive transversal approaches to the development of new and innovative methods that link theory and practice, management and policy, that address the real challenges faced by people around the world, and to provide a platform for new and emerging water leaders and thinkers to make an even greater contribution to finding the solutions so necessary to address the world's current and future water challenges. Our hope is that as water policy makers, managers, researchers, educators, community leaders, and interested individuals around the world you will find New Water Policy and Practice Journal a highly useful addition to the literature supporting practical solutions to water challenges. EDITORS-IN-CHIEF SUSANA NETO, Universidade Nova de Lisboa JEFF CAMKIN, University of Western Australia CAROLINA HENRIQUES, ISCTE Lisbon University Institute, Portugal

The world is not running out of water. As we learn in our early school years, the water cycle continues, with water changing state and location as it moves through the cycle and around the globe. However, we do have a very serious water management challenges. Water resources are unevenly spread around the world and access to water, even to meet basic human needs, is far from equitable. Some communities are challenged with too little water, resulting in drought, famine, and reduced development opportunities. Water scarcity affects more than 40% of the global population, with 633 million people without access to improved water resources and two thirds of the world's population living in those areas that experience water scarcity for at least 1 month a year (United Nations 2017). In June 2015 the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its OECD Principles on Water Governance (OECD 2015). The Principles on Water Governance were developed on the premise that there is no one-size-fits-all, but that governance is highly contextual, that water policies need to be tailored to different water resources and places, and that governance responses have to adapt to changing circumstances. The Principles aim to "enhance water governance systems that help manage "too much", "too little", and "too polluted" water in a sustainable, integrated, and inclusive way, at an acceptable cost, and in a reasonable time-frame". In this Issue we present a journey through the lens of six existing frameworks in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa, and South America to understand contextual factors enhancing or constraining water governance, and made suggestions to support practical implementation of the principles through better governmental action and stakeholder involvement. We trust that you will enjoy this introduction to some water governance frameworks around the world. We aim to continue this in future editions of New Water Policy and Practice and look forward to your contributions.