Foreword Helen Ingram 1. Introduction Gül Özerol, Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf and Cheryl de Boer 2. Water Management Solutions: On Panaceas and Policy Transfer Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf and Gül Özerol 3. Contextual Interaction Theory for Assessing Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer Hans Bressers and Cheryl de Boer 4. How Contextual Factors Influence the Effectiveness of International Projects: The Case of Dutch-funded Flood Risk Management Projects in Romania Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf, Carmen Teodosiu, Hans Bressers and Denie Augustijn 5. Testing of the Contextual Interaction Theory in the Evaluation of Cooperation and Collaboration of Water Management Projects in India Katherine Owens, Marcia Hughes and Ellen Scokzenski 6. Contextual Considerations Shaping the Transferability of Policies for Drinking Water Source Protection: A Canadian Case Study Rob de Loe and Dan Murray 7. Translating Water Policy Innovations in Kazakhstan: The Importance of Context Farhad Mukhtarov 8. Public Participation as an Essentially Contested Concept: Insights from Water Management in Turkey Gül Özerol, Aysun Özen Tacer and Mine Islar 9. Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Fragile Political Contexts: Experiences from the Palestinian Water and Waste Sector Irna van der Molen and Nora Stel 10. Transferring International Commitments to the Local Level: The Case of Integrated Urban (Waste)water Management in Hanoi, Vietnam Jaap Evers 11. Institutional Innovation of Water Governance in Mexico: The Case of Guadalupe Basin, near Mexico City M. Laura Franco-García, Lina Hendrawati-Tan, E. Carina Gutiérrez-Díaz, Cesar Casiano and Hans Bressers 12. Translating the Global Climate Change Discourse to the Local: An Analysis of Dutch Storylines on Adaptation Maya van den Berg 13. Adaptive Responses to Drought and Water Deficiency: Transfer of Governance Approaches across South and North Europe Stefan Kuks and Cheryl de Boer 14. The Transfer of Building with Nature Approach in the Context of EU Natura 2000 Vera Vikolainen, Kris Lulofs, Hans Bressers 15. Conclusions Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf, Gül Özerol, Cheryl de Boer and Hans Bressers Index