The long road to improving the water quality of the Western Bug River (Ukraine) – A multi-scale analysis

Water governance across competing scales: Coupling land and water management

“…Perceived scale mismatches, for example between spatial and administrative levels, commonly generate (or at least call for) the need to reform scales of water governance, often leading to the development of new administrative levels such as river basin management authorities. The cases presented in this special issue provide various ways to generate these changes in control according to the spatial entity of reference (groundwater, river basin) and current stabilization of the administrative scale structure in countries like the Ukraine (Hagemann et al, 2014). The cases also present innovative approaches based on how power flows and human action can attempt to make specific water related innovations meaningful beyond their own ''problem-sheds'', potentially generating rescaling processes across a number of dimensions (Daniell et al, 2014).…”

“…Table 1 Example externalities and interactions found in the special issue papers. Cross-scale and rescaling from spatial to administrative and institutional scales Political reform in transition state (towards more legitimacy) Hagemann et al (2014) Cross-scale interactions from administrative scale to spatial scale Coalitions on innovation uptake Daniell et al (2014) Cross-scale and rescaling from administrative scale levels and issues categories to institutional scale levels Governance structures on justice Patrick et al (2014) Cross-scale and rescaling on spatial, administrative and institutional scales to issues categories and perceptions (knowledge scale)…”

“…Typically, representatives of a community acting in a project could transmit their community members' representations to another scale level. People are also the bearers of data, knowledge or producers of actions that remain unharmonised when they are scattered across different institutional levels, which make them unusable at the basin spatial and administrative scale (Hagemann et al, 2014). For example, they can also physically work at, or across, multiple levels and scales, brokering information and knowledge, or facilitating its transfer, on different issues categories between people or different administrative levels (Richard-Ferroudji, 2014;Daniell et al, 2014).…”

“…For example, examples of institutional interplay and how it can be enhanced are provided, including through the development of: water planning mechanisms and creation of new institutional structures such as inter-departmental committees (Gillet et al, 2014); mechanisms for information sharing and division of labour (Hagemann et al, 2014); legal and territorial reforms (Hagemann et al, 2014) or institutional (re-)design (Ross, 2014).…”

“…The articles then present a range of integration and collaboration approaches, including collective decision-making approaches or ''co-management'', for example at the basin scale, which allow interests, knowledge and resources to be brought together in an attempt to reduce transaction costs across jurisdictional boundaries (Memon and Weber, 2008;Hagemann et al, 2014). Similarly, but based more on conflict resolution, through negotiation of tension, conflicts and contradictions, agreements on new governance scales can be made that will influence future practice (Swyngedouw, 2010;Houdret et al, 2013).…”