Water management policy for cooperation in catchement areas.

This is the PhD research project of Emma Enström. Emma is an industrial PhD student working for Sweden Water Research, Sydvatten and Lund University.

PHD PROJECT Emma is an industrial PhD at Sweden Water Research and associated with Lund University. The importance of water is reflected in our historical and current conceptualisation, use, negotiation and contestion of water. Recent climate-related extreme weather events such as flash floods and droughts have highlighted this in policy, governance and management. Other issues highlighted in policy, govrnance and management relates to landscape changes, hydropower development, pollution and invasive species. This complex web of issues extend beyond administrative boundaries through a range of stakeholders and, organisations within the government, industry, hydropower, agriculture, forestry, indigenoues rights and everyday lived experience around water.

In my research, I hope to explore how water is enacted, contested and negotiated in policy, the scientific community, management and, everyday lived experience and how water resist these definitions. I use qualitative research methods such as observations, interviews and document analysis.

Supervisor: Johanna Alkan Olsson, Lund University

Co-supervisor: Christian Alsterberg, Sydvatten