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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction, Objectives, and Scope.- Part I. Setting up the context.- Chapter 2. Physical context and key water resource issues in New Caledonia.- Chapter 3. The balance between water resources and uses.- Chapter 4. Water quality: trends and challenges.- Chapter 5. Water law and legal pluralism in New Caledonia.- Part II. From water representations to water policy – A look insight customary lands.- Chapter 6. Water tensions and social transformations on customary lands.- Chapter 7. The Five Kanak Waters.- Chapter 8. Water places: from relational ontologies to water governance.- Chapter 9. Water quality on customary lands: An intimate link between humans and their environment.- Part III. The Shared Water Policy and its Implementation.- Chapter 10. From diagnosis to implementation of the Shared Water Policy.- Chapter 11. The VKP Water Management Committee: An inspiring and successful experience for water management and stakeholders’ engagement.- Chapter 12. A multi-level process for policy design and integrated planning.- Part IV. New Futures in Water Policy.- Chapter 13. Governmentality, multi-scales politics and the commons.- Chapter 14. Towards new forms of water governance to improve indigenous inclusion.
