Overview
Outlines the use of a coherent and practical governance assessment tool (GAT) that clearly defines which concept of governance is used and presents many examples
Elaborates this concept of governance in a guide to assess the degree to which it as a context facilitates or hinders action
Provides a tool which can also be used outside the scope of drought resilience, or even water policy implementation
Explains the issue of drought resilience in mostly water-rich northern Europe, which has gained little attention in the past, even though the potential damages are very substantial
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book presents the findings of a team of scientists and practitioners who have been working on the project “Benefits of Governance in Drought Adaptation” (in short: the DROP project), which is included in the European Union’s INTERREG IVB NWE programme. The DROP governance team developed a Governance Assessment Tool (GAT), which allows the governance setting of a given region for planning and realizing drought adaptation measures to be assessed. Based on this assessment, recommendations can be developed for regional water authorities concerning how to operate most effectively towards increased drought resilience in this context. The GAT has been applied to six regions in Northwest Europe: Twente and Salland in the Netherlands, Eifel-Ruhr in Germany, Brittany in France, Somerset in the United Kingdom, and Flanders in Belgium. These regions are subject to drought aspects related to nature, agriculture and freshwater.
This book will aid regional water authorities and other relevant stakeholders interested in governance assessment, whether that context is about water, more specifically about drought or flooding events, or other environmental issues. Further, the GAT can and has also been applied more broadly to a range of governance contexts for water management and beyond.Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Governance for Drought Resilience
Book Subtitle: Land and Water Drought Management in Europe
Editors: Hans Bressers, Nanny Bressers, Corinne Larrue
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29671-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2016
License: CC BY-NC
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29669-2Published: 23 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80621-1Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29671-5Published: 11 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 256
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change Management and Policy, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management