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This title opens the debate on participation within water management by presenting a wide variety of case studies. It examines water management topics such as water rights definition, hydropower dam construction, urban river renewal, irrigation organizations and judicial decision-making in water conflicts.

Social participation in water management and governance recently became a reality in many economies and societies. Yet the dimensions in which power regulation, social equity and democracy-building are connected with participation have been only tangentially analyzed for the water sector. Understanding the growing interest in social participation involves appreciating the specificity of the contemporary period within its historic and geographic contexts as well as uncovering larger political, economic and cultural trends of recent decades which frame participatory actions. Within a wide...