Shifting Troubles: Decision‐Making versus Implementation in Participatory Watershed Governance

Roggero, Matteo

doi:10.1002/eet.1603

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“…The WFD aims to inform, involve and engage stakeholders and the public in order to realise its objectives (2000/60/EC, Article 14). This is said to provide for a better-informed general public, a legitimate programme of measures, more efficient implementation plans and fewer conflicts among stakeholders [50,51]. The wording chosen by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union leaves MS room for interpretation.…”

Section: Social-economic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards More Effective Water Quality Governance: A Review of Social-Economic, Legal and Ecological Perspectives and Their Interactions

2018

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In this article, social-economic, legal and ecological perspectives on effectiveness of water quality governance and their interactions have been studied. Worldwide, authorities are facing the challenge of restoring and preserving aquatic ecosystems in accordance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 6). Over the last few decades, governance approaches have often been used to realise these ambitions. To date, scholars have identified that it is difficult to relate governance approaches to water quality improvement and have offered several different explanations for this. Combined with a targeted conceptualisation of the perspectives and their interactions, the systematic literature review demonstrates the gap that exists in the current understanding of these interactions and what their effects are on water quality improvement, especially in regard to the identification of ecological issues and their boundary conditions for the legal framework and the development of measures and follow-up. The review also reveals that the scientific debate is focused on the planning rather than implementation phase. A step forward can be made by supplementing existing analytical frameworks by the interactions between the different perspectives, especially those related to problem definition and the development and realisation of measures.

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Section: Social-economic Perspectivementioning

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Towards More Effective Water Quality Governance: A Review of Social-Economic, Legal and Ecological Perspectives and Their Interactions

2018

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“…As the first major directive to introduce ‘mandated participatory planning’ (MPP) instruments to implement policy (Newig and Koontz, ), the WFD has attracted wide scholarly attention. A particular focus has been on the role of public participation in the directive's implementation (Blomqvist, ; Newig et al ., ; De Stefano, ; Wright and Fritsch, ; Van der Heijden and Ten Heuvelhof, ; Roggero, ). Building on this ample experience, it will therefore be useful to establish parallels and to compare participatory governance in the two directives in order to elucidate what can be learned from WFD experiences, what is transferable to FD implementation − and what is not (see Evers and Nyberg, , for a critical discussion).…”

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What Role for Public Participation in Implementing the EU Floods Directive? A Comparison With the Water Framework Directive, Early Evidence from Germany and a Research Agenda

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We examine the roles and functions of non-state actor participation in implementing the EU Floods Directive of 2007 (FD). We draw on experiences with participation under the Water Framework Directive (WFD), because of important links between the two directives. Comparing the legal basis and the different functions for participation, we observe the paradoxical situation that while the WFD has fervently advocated public participation, public interest has remained low, whereas the FD is less sanguine about participation, despite citizens being potentially more affected by flood management issues -particularly given the current trend towards a 'risk management' approach under the FD. Our examination of current FD implementation in Germany reveals a considerable variety of participation approaches, as well as a general trend to 'less' rather than 'more' participation as compared to the WFD. The paper closes by discussing implications for future flood management planning and avenues for comparative research.

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“…This includes work by Tippett et al (2005), Carter and Howe (2006), Blackstock and Carter (2007), and Kastens and Newig (2007). More recently, authors have studied the actual politics of WFD implementation but often with a focus on specific areas of water management, for instance on costs (Roggero 2013), the interaction with policy areas such as forestry (Keskitalo and Pettersson 2012) or biodiversity (Beunen et al 2009), river basin management plans (without discussion of public and stakeholder participation), or specific actor groups (Andersson et al 2012). 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.…”

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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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Shifting Troubles: Decision‐Making versus Implementation in Participatory Watershed Governance

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

Towards More Effective Water Quality Governance: A Review of Social-Economic, Legal and Ecological Perspectives and Their Interactions

Towards More Effective Water Quality Governance: A Review of Social-Economic, Legal and Ecological Perspectives and Their Interactions

What Role for Public Participation in Implementing the EU Floods Directive? A Comparison With the Water Framework Directive, Early Evidence from Germany and a Research Agenda

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

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