Comparative analysis of case studies

Abstract

As noted in Chap. 1, this study of decentralized river basin management posed severalquestions. What factors might affect the likelihood of stakeholder involvement reallycontributing to effective basin-level resource management? Are efforts to conductintegrated water resource management at the basin level able to succeed? How canstakeholder involvement and effective resource management at the basin level be sustainedover time and changing conditions? What factors might account for the longevity ofdecentralized arrangements in some cases and their demise in others?The eight river basin case studies were undertaken to pursue answers to questionssuch as these. This chapter discusses the eight cases with respect to those questions,while highlighting other factors that emerged as important during the course of thestudy.