Overview
- Water policy, environmental governance and resource management are getting increasing attention at universities in student classes, courses for graduates, post-graduates and PhD-students
- Broad perspective on the long-term evolution on water rights and water policy, covering many Western European countries and including both humid areas and arid areas across Europe
- New theoretical approach to resource management, combining the property rights perspective with the public policy or governance perspective
- Appealing to both European and American academics: The empirical work is European based, and the theoretical approach is strongly inspired by American scholars
Part of the book series: Environment & Policy (ENPO, volume 41)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
All over the world countries struggle with water stress. Problems vary from water scarcity and a degrading water quality, to floods and a rising sea level due to climate change. The European Union adopted a Water Framework Directive to improve the sustainability of water management in its member states. Water management should be coordinated at the level of river basins as a whole. Interests of various user groups should be better represented. River basin visions should take into account the impact of all human activities on the status of the resource. Water legislation needs streamlining and more focus on its implementation. The European Union advocates regulating water prices by charging the costs of water services on the basis of full cost recovery and the polluter pays principle.
This book examines water management integration in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland. It is based on the European research project EUWARENESS. Per country two case studies are considered, to analyze specific regime transitions at water basin level during the last decades. The twelve case studies are discussed within their national context and compared on conditions that are important for regime change towards sustainability. The book also provides theory on water governance, institutional regimes, and property rights, resulting in a tool for monitoring the progress of integrated water management at the basin level in EU member states or other countries.
This book follows another volume published with Kluwer Academic Publishers on "The Evolution of National Water Regimes in Europe", edited by Ingrid Kissling-Näf and Stefan Kuks.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book constitutes the research findings of the project ‘EUWARENESS: European Water Regimes and the Notion of a Sustainable Status’ … . The book is very well-written and makes a significant contribution to the field … . The variety of case studies from different geographical and institutional settings … makes this volume very useful and informative. The well-structured combination of narrative and analytical sections makes the research results easily accessible for a spectrum of readers including researchers, students, as well as policy makers." (Stefanie Engel and Astrid Zabel, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, Vol. 45 (4), 2006)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Integrated Governance and Water Basin Management
Book Subtitle: Conditions for Regime Change and Sustainability
Editors: Hans Bressers, Stefan Kuks
Series Title: Environment & Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2482-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2481-8Published: 30 November 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6666-4Published: 04 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2482-5Published: 03 November 2012
Series ISSN: 1383-5130
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0110
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 269
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Environmental Management, Environmental Economics