Implementing the Public Participation Principle into Water Management in the Czech Republic: A Critical Analysis

Slavíková, Lenka; Jílková, Jiřina

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“…Second, authors explore the effects of participation, typically on social learning processes (Borowski et al 2008), ecological outcomes and implementation (Drazkiewicz et al 2015), or legitimacy (Behagel and Turnhout 2011). Third, we found a series of articles comparing instances of participation against legal or normative benchmarks, i.e., evaluative exercises (Watson and Howe 2006, Slavíková and Jílková 2011, Benson et al 2014. With the exception of works focusing on ecological outcomes, an aspect still treated with neglect, the above questions represent strands of research that speak to a wider and already well-established literature.…”

Section: Mapping Scholarly Interest: Countries Policy Levels Themesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…All studies with an evaluative ambition have one thing in common: They focus on public participation, including research on Ireland (Irvine and O'Brien 2009), the Czech Republic (Slavíková and Jílková 2011), Spain (Parés 2011), and the United Kingdom (Blackstock et al 2012, Fritsch and Benson 2013, Benson et al 2014. None of those countries had well-established participatory mechanisms in place prior to the adoption of the directive.…”

Section: Studying Wfd Implementation: Theory and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Studying the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Europe: a meta-analysis of 89 journal articles

Boeuf¹,

Fritsch²

2016

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ABSTRACT. The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is arguably the most ambitious piece of European Union (EU) legislation in the field of water. The directive defines a general framework for integrated river basin management in Europe with a view to achieving "good water status" by 2015. Institutional novelties include, among others, water management at hydrological scales, the involvement of nonstate actors in water planning, and various economic principles, as well as a common strategy to support EU member states during the implementation of the directive. More than 15 years after the adoption of the WFD, and with the passing of an important milestone, 2015, we believe it is time for an interim assessment. This article provides a systematic review of existing scholarship on WFD implementation. We identify well-documented areas of research, describe largely unchartered territories, and suggest avenues for future studies. Methodologically, we relied on a meta-analysis. Based on a codebook of more than 35 items, we analyzed 89 journal articles reporting on the implementation of the directive in EU member states. Our review is organized around three major themes. The first is "who, when, and where"; we explore publication patterns, thereby looking into authors, timelines, and target journals. The second is "what"; we analyze the object of study in our source articles with a particular focus on case study countries, policy levels, the temporal stage of WFD implementation, and if the directive was not studied in its entirety, the aspect of the WFD that received scholarly attention. The third is "how," i.e., theoretical and methodological choices made when studying the WFD.

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Section: Mapping Scholarly Interest: Countries Policy Levels Themesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Studying Wfd Implementation: Theory and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Studying the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Europe: a meta-analysis of 89 journal articles

Boeuf¹,

Fritsch²

2016

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110

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“…Only a few studies take a broader perspective and analyse public participation in WFD river basin planning as it emerges in the member states more than ten years after the adoption of the Directive. Previous scholarship has studied practice in Spain (Pares 2011), the Czech Republic (Slavíková and Jílková 2011), France, Denmark and the Netherlands (Liefferink et al 2011), Germany (Moss 2012), and the…”

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Evaluating participation in WFD river basin management in England and Wales: Processes, communities, outputs and outcomes

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Participatory environmental governance is increasing worldwide. One area where such governance forms are apparent is in the management of water resources. For example, in the European Union the Water Framework Directive mandates several forms of involvement via its legal obligations. Under the Directive, implementing agencies should provide information on river basin management planning to the public, consult citizens and stakeholders during planning and actively involve interested parties in the plan process. Yet questions arise over the success of participatory processes on the ground in EU member states. In this study, participation was therefore evaluated in WFD river basin planning in England and Wales using process, community, output and outcome-related indicators. Research was conducted through extensive quantitative and qualitative data collection over a long temporal scale within case analyses of the Anglian, Humber and South West river basin districts. Results suggest that while the first phase of river basin management largely met legal requirements, the actual success of participatory water governance was mixed. On this basis, recommendations are made for enhancing participation in future river basin planning through national and EU policy.

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“…Existing applications of the approach have shown its usefulness for the support of decision-making in management of water quality in practice. When negotiating the realization details of plans for water quality improvement in lakes and river basins, it is possible to compare solutions resulting from the negotiations of (concrete) stakeholders with the results of the optimization computations [17][18][19][20]. In cases where the differences are not too big (such as the politically acceptable deviation of up-to 20% cost increase in our case), a negotiated solution different from the optimal one could be accepted.…”

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Coalition Projects to Cut Back Costs of Cleaning Recreational Water Bodies: The Case of Lake Rozkoš

Šauer¹,

Fiala²,

Dvořák³

et al. 2017

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Until recently, in order to treat polluted fresh water it has been typical for major polluters to be addressed from larger to smaller and from springs to river estuaries. The implementation of Water Directive 2000/60/EC [1] contributed significantly to solving water pollution problems in the past.The impacts of climate change on water regimes increased living standards and decreased surface water pollution caused by larger and medium-sized polluters have led to a new strategy: the focus is now on the protection of relatively small areas such as drinking water reservoirs, recreational lakes, and parts of watersheds where there is an increased demand for special protection of nature [2][3].The difference from the previous situation is that multiple (rather smaller) polluters that should be addressed to achieve environmental targets are located in relatively small territories. In this situation, it might make sense for polluters to create coalitions and collaborate on common treatment projects (for instance, building common water treatment plants) in order to save on costs of achieving environmental targets.In our paper, we focus on cases in which, in order to achieve the target, all polluters must contribute to certain projects to reduce pollution, which could be an Pol. J. Environ. Stud. Vol. 26, No. 4 (2017), [1701][1702][1703][1704][1705][1706][1707][1708][1709][1710][1711][1712][1713][1714] Original Research Coalition Projects to Cut Back Costs of Cleaning Recreational Water Bodies:The Case of Lake Rozkoš AbstractThis paper presents the application of an optimization model developed for Lake Rozkoš, which is located in a sub-basin of the Elbe River basin in Bohemia. Two scenarios for achieving environmental targets (required status of the lake water) were formulated by specialists, together with an assessment of the investment and operating costs of the projects. The optimal solution (investment program) for 41 pollutermunicipalities, where 166 coalitions can be considered (41 individual and 125 joint wastewater treatment plants), was computed. The results suggest that the modelling method presented in this paper has the potential to increase the role of economic considerations in the early stages of planning and decision-making about water treatment programs. In this case, more than 20% of the costs could be saved when selected joint wastewater treatment plants are realized. The approach has the potential to contribute to increasing costeffectiveness of allocation of financial sources from national and European Union sources.Keywords: water pollution, abatement costs, cost-effectiveness, optimization, reverse combinatorial auctions *e-mail: sauer@vse.cz DOI: 10.15244/pjoes/68888 1702 Šauer P., et al. individual project or a common project for two or more polluters. Significant (i.e., almost zero) phosphorus emission reduction to avoid algae and blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria) in recreational and drinking water reservoirs are typical cases of such scenarios.Alternative approaches could be used for cal...

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Implementing the Public Participation Principle into Water Management in the Czech Republic: A Critical Analysis

Cited by 23 publications

References 24 publications

Studying the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Europe: a meta-analysis of 89 journal articles

Studying the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Europe: a meta-analysis of 89 journal articles

Evaluating participation in WFD river basin management in England and Wales: Processes, communities, outputs and outcomes

Coalition Projects to Cut Back Costs of Cleaning Recreational Water Bodies: The Case of Lake Rozkoš

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