Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) forms the widely accepted ecosystem approach to manage water and its related resources in a sustainable way. Nevertheless its implementation is still lacking behind, especially in developing and transition countries which are often short of essential...

Introduction -- Economic conceptualization of international water management problems -- Legal perspectives on institutional design -- Empirical evidence of international water management institutions -- The role of the problem structure for institutional design and cooperation -- The role of...

This study analyses a complex social-ecological system (SES), the case of competition for groundwater in Azraq, in the light of the 2030 Agenda. Building on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (IAD) and the concept of Networks of Adjacent Action Situations (NAAS) it assess the...