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0000-0001-8995-8634
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Murdoch University
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-09-2016
DOI: 10.1111/REGO.12129
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-09-2018
DOI: 10.1111/JFR3.12264
Publisher: Baltzer Science Publishers
Date: 07-2013
DOI: 10.7564/13-IJWG7
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-05-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-09-2023
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 19-04-2016
DOI: 10.3390/W8040156
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-02-2010
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 29-04-2016
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: 06-04-2012
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2016
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 23-12-2019
DOI: 10.3390/W12010072
Abstract: Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has become a global paradigm for the governance of surface, coastal and groundwater. International bodies such as the European Union, the Global Water Partnership, and the United Nations have taken the lead to promote IWRM principles, while countries worldwide have undertaken reforms to implement these principles and to restructure their domestic or regional water governance arrangements. However, the international transfer of IWRM principles raises a number of theoretical, empirical and normative questions related to its causes, processes and outcomes. These questions will be explored in our Special Issue ‘Governing IWRM: Mutual Learning and Policy Transfer’. This editorial briefly introduces IWRM and links this governance paradigm to theoretical and empirical scholarship on policy transfer. We then summarise the aims and objectives of this Special Issue, provide an overview of the articles brought together here and offer avenues for future research.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 13-05-2019
DOI: 10.3390/W11050996
Abstract: Public participation is central to the IWRM discourse and often associated with claims of improved environmental policy outputs and their implementation. Whilst the involvement of nonstate actors in environmental decision-making has attracted scholarly attention from various angles, our knowledge is scant as to the forces that drive organisational reform towards participatory governance. This article sets out to contribute to this largely neglected research area and explores conditions under which policy-makers would be willing to attend towards more participative water governance. Its ambition is twofold: first, to explore the conditions under which public officials attempt to institutionalise more participatory modes of water governance. To this end, I analyse the implementation of the Directive’s active involvement provision in England and Wales. For many decades, water management in England and Wales had a reputation for being a technocratic exercise. In the past 15 years, however, the Environment Agency has made considerable efforts to lay the foundation for enhanced stakeholder participation. Second, with reference to the case of England and Wales, this study contributes to understanding the difficulties that reformers may meet when it comes to building support within an organisation and to implementing reforms towards participatory governance.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-05-2017
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Date: 16-03-2018
DOI: 10.2166/WP.2018.108
Abstract: The Water Framework Directive aims to achieve ‘good status’ for all water bodies in the European Union. However, exemption clauses enable member states to delay protective measures and to lower water quality objectives. The ambiguity of exemption clauses has led to a plurality of approaches across the continent. They differ as to their political objectives, i.e., the overall ambition displayed in implementing the Directive, and to their methodological choices, i.e., the analytical tools used to justify exemptions. This article argues that those political and methodological dimensions influence each other. Relying on a framework of analysis that integrates key recommendations from the literature, we explore the usage and justification of exemptions in two countries, the United Kingdom and France. Our analysis suggests that analytical methods were often decided so as to reflect the ecological ambitions of a country, and some methodological choices seem to have had unintended consequences for water quality objectives. We conclude that economic methods should be adapted so that they take into account, rather than ignore, the political ambitions of a country in the field of water.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-05-2013
DOI: 10.1057/EPS.2013.26
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2245518
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 22-11-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 08-09-2016
DOI: 10.3390/W8090388
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2011
DOI: 10.1068/A44161
Abstract: Participation has become a mantra in environmental governance. However, there are signs that the participatory agenda has started to lose its momentum and justification because of disappointments about actual achievements. Rather than focusing on improving participatory processes or articulating best practices, in this paper we seek to understand the more fundamental reasons why difficulties are encountered. In our interviews with professionals involved in participation in environmental governance we found varying and potentially conflicting rationales for participation, with instrumental and legalistic rationales dominating. We contend that the institutional and political context in which this participation takes place is an important explanation of this prevalence. This includes the provisions for participation in EU directives, failing policy integration, institutional and political barriers, and failing political uptake of results from participation. We conclude there is a need for more reflexive awareness of the different ways in which participation is defined and practised in contemporary environmental policy making and for a more realistic assessment of possibilities for changes towards more participatory and deliberative decision making.
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Date: 2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2009
DOI: 10.1002/EET.509
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