The environment as a challenge for governmental responsibility — The case of the European Water Framework Directive

Petersen, Thomas Søbirk; Klauer, Bernd; Manstetten, Reiner

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.01.008

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“…A risk of this way of directing future action is that implementation will place a greater emphasis on the format (e.g., when to set objectives, what to report, and how to formulate plans) than on how to direct action towards specific goals. Such a criticism has previously been leveled at, for example, the implementation of the WFD [67,68]. Mapping adaptation policy in the two case countries indicates that clear policy instruments and systems for financing implementation are more essential in managing adaptation than are new working methods.…”

Section: Finlandmentioning

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New Levels of Climate Adaptation Policy: Analyzing the Institutional Interplay in the Baltic Sea Region

Glaas

Juhola

2013

Sustainability

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Abstract:International policy development and expected climate change impacts such as flooding, landslides, and the extinction of sensitive species have forced countries around the Baltic Sea to begin working on national climate adaptation policies. Simultaneously, the EU is building both a central and a macro-regional Baltic Sea-wide adaptation strategy to support national policy developments. However, it yet remains unclear how these EU strategies will complement each other or national policies. This article analyzes the constraints and opportunities presented by this new institutional interplay and discusses the potential of the forthcoming EU strategies to support national policy. It does so by mapping how adaptation is institutionalized in two case countries, Sweden and Finland, and is organized in the two EU approaches. The vertical institutional interplay between scales is analyzed in terms of three factors: competence, capacity, and compatibility. Results indicate institutional constraints related to: risks of policy complexity for subnational actors, an unclear relationship between the two EU approaches, an overly general approach to targeting contextualized climate change vulnerabilities, and a general lack of strategies to steer adaptation. However, there are also opportunities linked to an anticipated increased commitment to the national management of adaptation, especially related to biodiversity issues. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2013, 5 257

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Section: Finlandmentioning

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New Levels of Climate Adaptation Policy: Analyzing the Institutional Interplay in the Baltic Sea Region

Glaas

Juhola

2013

Sustainability

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“…Petersen et al [17], therefore, argue that a fundamental shift in the public mandate to regulate water use has occurred. The WFD has significantly enlarged the scope of responsibilities of the state in water management by demanding provision of good environmental status, a task, which the authors associate with greater state interference.…”

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Action Research’s Potential to Foster Institutional Change for Urban Water Management

Zikos

Thiel

2013

Water

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Abstract:The paper discusses the potential of action research to meet the challenges entailed in institutional design for urban water management. Our overall aim is to briefly present action research and discuss its methodological merits with regard to the challenges posed by the different conceptual bases for extrapolating the effects of institutional design on institutional change. Thus, our aim is to explore how Action Research meets the challenge of scoping the field in an open fashion for determining the appropriate mechanisms of institutional change and supporting the emerging of new water institutions. To accomplish this aim, we select the Water Framework Directive (WFD) as an illustrative driving force requiring changes in water management practices and implying the need for the emergence of new institutions. We employ a case of urban water management in the Volos Metropolitan Area, part of the Thessaly region in Greece, where a Pilot River Basin Plan was implemented. By applying action research and being involved in a long process of interaction between stakeholders, we examine the emergence of new institutions dealing with urban water management under the general principles of the major driving force for change: the WFD.

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“…An important institutional novelty introduced by the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) was to hold the member states responsible for guaranteeing a certain status of waters (Petersen/Klauer/Manstetten 2009). Particularly in Article 4.1 the directive demands that -in principle -all groundwater as well as all surface and coastal waters should achieve an ambitious environmental objective by 2015, namely "good status".…”

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Decision Support for the Selection of Measures according to the Requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive

Klauer

Rode

Schiller

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Water Resour Manage

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractOne of the major scientific challenges posed by the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) is the design of a decision support process that meets the directive's requirement to achieve good status using a cost-effective combination of measures. This paper presents BASINFORM, a new decision tool for selecting cost-effective management measures that has been developed in close co-operation with a number of water authorities and tested in the 5154 km² mesoscale 4 th order river Weisse Elster in central Germany. BASINFORM comprises (i) a set procedure for framing the problem concerned, including proposals for quantifying the discrepancy between the status quo and the good water status to be achieved (i.e. the need for action); (ii) modelling tools quantifying the impacts of management measures (e.g. Meta-CANDY and WASP 5); and (iii) a method for selecting cost-effective combinations of measures. A trial run of BASINFORM in the Weisse Elster catchment revealed that (i) good surface water status with respect to nutrients can not be achieved if only the "standard" actions of current water management are taken to reduce point sources (sewage treatment) and diffuse agricultural sources and (ii) the available measures for nutrient reduction will generate considerable costs. The testing of BASINFORM in the case study proved its practical applicability in the WFD implementation process.

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The environment as a challenge for governmental responsibility — The case of the European Water Framework Directive

Cited by 44 publications

References 9 publications

New Levels of Climate Adaptation Policy: Analyzing the Institutional Interplay in the Baltic Sea Region

New Levels of Climate Adaptation Policy: Analyzing the Institutional Interplay in the Baltic Sea Region

Action Research’s Potential to Foster Institutional Change for Urban Water Management

Decision Support for the Selection of Measures according to the Requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive

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