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Cook BR, Spray CJ. Ecosystem services and integrated water resource management: different paths to the same end?. J Environ Manage. 2012;109:93-100doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.05.016.
Cook, B. R., & Spray, C. J. (2012). Ecosystem services and integrated water resource management: different paths to the same end?. Journal of environmental management, 10993-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.05.016
Cook, Brian R, and Spray, Christopher J. "Ecosystem services and integrated water resource management: different paths to the same end?." Journal of environmental management vol. 109 (2012): 93-100. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.05.016
Cook BR, Spray CJ. Ecosystem services and integrated water resource management: different paths to the same end?. J Environ Manage. 2012 Oct 30;109:93-100. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.05.016. Epub 2012 Jun 12. PMID: 22699027.
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J Environ Manage. 2012 Oct 30;109:93-100. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.05.016. Epub 2012 Jun 12.

Ecosystem services and integrated water resource management: different paths to the same end?.

Journal of environmental management

Brian R Cook, Christopher J Spray

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  1. UNESCO IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee, Peters Building, Perth Road, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK. [email protected]

PMID: 22699027 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.05.016

Abstract

The two concepts that presently dominate water resource research and management are the Global Water Partnership's (GWP, 2000) interpretation of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and Ecosystem Services (ES) as interpreted by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA, 2005). Both concepts are subject to mounting criticism, with a significant number of critiques focusing on both their conceptual and methodological incompatibility with management and governance, what has come to be known as the 'implementation gap'. Emergent within the ES and IWRM literatures, then, are two parallel debates concerning the gap between conceptualisation and implementation. Our purpose for writing this review is to argue: 1) that IWRM and ES have evolved into nearly identical concepts, 2) that they face the same critical challenge of implementation, and 3) that, if those interested in water research and management are to have a positive impact on the sustainable utilisation of dwindling water resources, they must break the tendency to jump from concept to concept and confront the challenges that arise with implementation.

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