Water governance: new performance measures for diagnosing a watershed organization

Collective action problems often impede watershed governance performance, and the need for diagnostic tools to analyze governance performance in the complex network of actors responsible for governing shared waters exacerbates this issue. This research aims to fill this gap by offering new insights into how social network attributes influence a watershed organization's governance performance. Using the Okanagan Basin Water Board network organization as a case study, this research provides a situational context for watershed governance research by exploring the polycentricity literature. Secondly, it examines how exponential random graph models can be employed to evaluate a watershed organization's network performance over time. Finally, it explains how organizational network modelling can be utilized to enhance our knowledge of social capital and watershed governance performance. This research aims to use social network analysis tools based on observed data to diagnose an organization's governance and ecological service delivery performance. An improved understanding of watershed organizational network attributes that contribute to the social capital building, and ecological service delivery will help to enhance organizational governance systems and support our collective responsibility to protect and manage shared and common waters.

Author dc:creator

• Jatel, Nelson Regan

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Pittman, Jeremy

Identifier URI

http://dx.doi.org/10.25316/IR-18941

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