Careful reconsideration of strategies to achieve water management ambitions, together with a more in-depth knowledge of the theories and practices of boundary spanning, could bring solutions for contemporary water problems within reach. Governance and Complexity in Water Management incorporates conceptual, theoretical and practical foci on dealing with complexity and conflict by boundary spanning in adaptive water management. Guidance for boundary spanning in practice is presented, and important contemporary water management themes including flooding and flood policy, water depletion and water restoration are discussed in detail.

This is the first book to describe, analyze and prescribe water transitions through a boundary perspective. This book provides an unique combination of theory, application, and analysis. It will be a valuable book for water professionals, policy scientists, students, and scholars in natural resource management and especially water management.

Contents:

1. Innovations in Water Management Requiring Boundary Spanning: Roots and Concepts
Kris Lulofs and Hans Bressers

2. Analysis of Boundary Judgments in Complex Interaction Processes
Hans Bressers and Kris Lulofs

3. A Boundary Perspective on Flood Management in the Netherlands
Wim van Leussen

4. The Temporal Dimensions of Boundary Judgments
Aysun Özen Tacer

5. Space for Water and Boundary Spanning Governance
Hans Bressers, Simone Hanegraaff and Kris Lulofs

6. Building a New River and Boundary Spanning Governance
Hans Bressers, Simone Hanegraaff and Kris Lulofs

7. The Dutch Land-use Re-ordering Process as a Multi-stakeholder Management Strategy
Katharine Owens

8. Linking Natural Science Based Knowledge to Governance Strategy: A Case of Regional Water Depletion Analyzed
Mirjam van Tilburg

9. Rethinking Boundaries in Implementation Processes
Jaap G. Evers

10. Guidance Schemes for the Boundary Spanner
Jan van der Molen and Kris Lulofs

11. Conclusions
Hans Bressers and Kris Lulofs