Understanding the factors that influence water governance evolution
Research gap analysis derived from 3 social_science papers in our local library.
The gap
The paper identifies a gap in understanding the factors that influence water governance evolution. It highlights the need for effective water governance mechanisms to reduce vulnerability in disasters while managing complex stakeholder relationships.
Evidence profile
Sourced from the stated research gap and future-work section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2024 and 2025, spanning 2 journals. Those papers have been cited 31 times in total.
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Established — well-defined area with open sub-problems.
Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Thirst for Change in Water Governance: Overcoming Challenges for Drought Resilience in Southern Europe (2025) · Water · cited 10× · doi
The paper identifies a gap in the current understanding of how information asymmetries and governance fragmentation undermine coordinated responses to water scarcity. It highlights the need for a multi-level analytical framework to explore water governance in Southern Europe. The study also identifies a gap in the development of policy-relevant tools for diagnosing governance capacity and informing reform strategies.
generalstated research gapKeywords: paper identifies gap current understanding information asymmetries governance - Evolution of Water Governance for Climate Resilience: Lessons from Japan’s Experience (2025) · Water · cited 10× · doi
The paper identifies a gap in understanding the factors that influence water governance evolution. It highlights the need for effective water governance mechanisms to reduce vulnerability in disasters while managing complex stakeholder relationships. The study addresses the gap by analyzing the evolution of water governance in Japan and evaluating the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement mechanisms.
generalstated research gapKeywords: paper identifies gap understanding factors influence water governance - Institutional analysis of water governance in the Colorado River Basin, 1922–2022 (2024) · Frontiers in Water · cited 11× · doi
To fill this gap, other studies could be conducted to understand how path dependency, adaptations, and informal rules have and have not contributed to sustainable water management in the CRB - Identifying the shortcomings of historic and legacy water governance may help inform more effective strategies for future adaptations - Factors that may shape and influence decision-making, such as informal rules and norms as well as shadow networks, should be studied to help tell the larger story of how water governance has evolved in the CRB over time - Future research could apply our approach to other basins with histories of water policy and conduct cross-case comparisons with our study as well as existing studies to add to water governance knowledge and literature
generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5Keywords: fill gap other studies conducted understand path dependency
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