title: Co-governing decentralised water systems: an analytical framework.
abstract: Current discourses in urban water management emphasise a diversity of water sources and scales of infrastructure for resilience and adaptability. During the last 2 decades, in particular, various small-scale systems emerged and developed so that the debate has largely moved from centralised versus decentralised water systems toward governing integrated and networked systems of provision and consumption where small-scale technologies are embedded in large-scale centralised infrastructures. However, while centralised systems have established boundaries of ownership and management, decentralised water systems (such as stormwater harvesting technologies for the street, allotment/house scales) do not, therefore the viability for adoption and/or continued use of decentralised water systems is challenged. This paper brings together insights from the literature on public sector governance, co-production and social practices model to develop an analytical framework for co-governing such systems. The framework provides urban water practitioners with guidance when designing co-governance arrangements for decentralised water systems so that these systems continue to exist, and become widely adopted, within the established urban water regime.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Building 11, Monash University, Clayton 3800 Victoria, Australia. carlyne.yu@monash.edu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Morison
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D006076:Government; D011057:Politics; D014881:Water Supply / Q000032:analysis*