In recent years, the water crisis has emerged as one of the fundamental challenges in the governance of natural resources and sustainable development, attracting widespread attention from scholars, policymakers, and international institutions. At the same time, new approaches to water governance have been proposed through various theories and recommendations by international communities, each emphasizing aspects such as participation, efficiency, and sustainability to enhance water governance. The present study aims to explore the role of open governance in the era of information and communication technology in fostering the integration and synergy of these approaches. The research method was a systematic review. Following a pilot search in Google Scholar and the determination of the research path, an initial search yielded 33 articles out of 759 retrieved from the Web of Science and ScienceDirect databases. Subsequently, a forward search in the Emerald and Springer databases identified 15 additional articles, and a backward search identified 6 more, resulting in a total of 54 articles selected for final analysis. The findings indicate that adopting open governance in the era of information and communication technology within the water sector not only possesses the necessary capacity to respond to a substantial portion of the solutions and concepts derived from the outcome of new approaches to water governance and serves as an integrating mechanism that provides the ground for convergence and linkage among these approaches, but also, by relying on the broad nature of concepts such as transparency, accountability, open participation, and open collaboration, will create new horizons for the realization of these solutions.
Abbasabadi, H. , Imani, A. , Kord, B. , Yaghoubi, N. M. and Vazife, Z. (2025). The Role of Open Governance in Linking New Water Governance Aapproaches. , 2(3), 279-305. doi: 10.22059/jnrg.2025.404316.1060
MLA
Abbasabadi, H. , , Imani, A. , , Kord, B. , , Yaghoubi, N. M. , and Vazife, Z. . "The Role of Open Governance in Linking New Water Governance Aapproaches", , 2, 3, 2025, 279-305. doi: 10.22059/jnrg.2025.404316.1060
HARVARD
Abbasabadi, H., Imani, A., Kord, B., Yaghoubi, N. M., Vazife, Z. (2025). 'The Role of Open Governance in Linking New Water Governance Aapproaches', , 2(3), pp. 279-305. doi: 10.22059/jnrg.2025.404316.1060
CHICAGO
H. Abbasabadi , A. Imani , B. Kord , N. M. Yaghoubi and Z. Vazife, "The Role of Open Governance in Linking New Water Governance Aapproaches," , 2 3 (2025): 279-305, doi: 10.22059/jnrg.2025.404316.1060
VANCOUVER
Abbasabadi, H., Imani, A., Kord, B., Yaghoubi, N. M., Vazife, Z. The Role of Open Governance in Linking New Water Governance Aapproaches. , 2025; 2(3): 279-305. doi: 10.22059/jnrg.2025.404316.1060