Acronyms and Abbreviations
Executive Summary
Chapter 1. Public Governance and Water Policies: An Innovative Multi-level Approach
-Introduction
-Improving water governance: A key topic in the political agenda
-Overview of water governance concepts, definitions and initiatives
-Improving public governance of water policy: scope of the report and methodology
-Conclusion
Chapter 2. Mapping Institutional Roles and Responsibilities
-Introduction
-OECD survey on water governance
-Institutional mapping of water roles and responsibilities at central government level
-Institutional mapping of water roles and responsibilities at sub-national government level
-Main conclusions from OECD countries’ institutional organisation of water policy
-Conclusion
Chapter 3. Challenges to Co-ordinating Water Policies Across Ministries and Levels of Government
-Introduction
-Methodology for evaluating governance challenges in OECD countries’ water policy making
-A tentative classification of OECD countries’ multi-level governance challenges in water policy.
-Institutional fragmentation: An application of the Multi-level Governance Framework in selected OECD metropolitan regions
-Conclusion
Chapter 4. Multi-level Co-ordination of Water Policies
-Introduction
-Governance instruments for managing mutual dependencies in the water sector
-Institutional mechanisms for upper horizontal co-ordination of water policy
-Co-ordinating water policies between levels of government and across sub-national actors
-Conclusion
Chapter 5. Final Considerations for Water Policy Governance: Preliminary Guidelines
-Findings of the report
-Lessons from OECD experience in the governance of water policy
-Envisioning long-term strategies: preliminary guidelines for effective management of multi-level governance
-Annex 5.A1
Chapter 6. Country Profiles
-Australia
-Belgium (Flanders)
-Belgium (Wallonia)
-Canada
-Chile
-France
-Greece
-Israel
-Italy
-Japan
-Korea
-Mexico
-Netherlands
-New Zealand
-Portugal
-Spain
-United Kingdom (England and Wales)
-United States (Colorado)