Reconceptualising water quality governance to incorporate knowledge and values: Case studies from Australian and Brazilian Indigenous communities

Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 40 - 60
Published: Jan 1, 2018
Abstract
This paper examines the significance of knowledge and values for water quality and its governance. Modernist approaches to the governance of water quality in rivers and lakes need to be reconceptualised and overhauled. The problems include: perceiving water only as a physical and chemical liquid, defining quality in narrow terms, rendering water knowledge as invisible, boiling down water values to uses of presumed economic importance and...
Paper Details
Title
Reconceptualising water quality governance to incorporate knowledge and values: Case studies from Australian and Brazilian Indigenous communities
Published Date
Jan 1, 2018
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
40 - 60
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