The beauty of the beast : multi-stakeholder participation for integrated catchment management / Jeroen Warner -- The nature of the beast : towards a comparative MSP typology / Jeroen Warner and Annemiek Verhallen -- Collaborative capital : a key to the successful practice of integrated water resources management / Nigel Watson -- Integrated catchment management and MSPs : pulling in different directions? / Bruce Mitchell -- Contrasting UK experiences with participatory approaches to integrated river basin management / Malcolm Newson -- Århus convention in practice : access to information and decision-making in a pilot planning process for a Flemish river basin / Annemiek Verhallen -- The international Zwin Commission : the beauty of a mayfly? / Leo Santbergen -- Participating in watershed management : policy and practice in the Trahunco watershed, Argentinean Patagonia / Alejandra Moreyra and Jeroen Warner -- 'Yakunchik' : coming to agreement after violence in Perú / María Teresa Oré -- Multi-stakeholder platforms for surface and groundwater management in the Lerma-Chapala basin, Mexico / Philippus Wester, Jaime Hoogesteger van Dijk and Hans Paters -- Less tension, limited decision : a multi-stakeholder platform to review a contested sanitation project in Tiquipaya, Bolivia / Nicolas Faysse, Vladimir Cossío, Franz Quiroz, Raúl Ampuero and Bernardo Paz -- Multi-stakeholder dissonance in the South African water arena / Eliab Simpungwe, Pieter Waalewijn and Bert Raven -- Mekong region water-related MSPs : unfulfilled potential / John Dore -- Against the conventional wisdom : why sector reallocation of water and multi-stakeholder platforms do not take place in Uzbekistan / Kai Wegerich -- Unpacking participatory NRM : distinguishing resource capture from democratic governance / Bruce Currie-Alder -- Towards evaluating MSPs for integrated catchment management -- Annemiek Verhallen, Jeroen Warner and Leo Santbergen.