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Contrasting stories on overcoming governance challenges: the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in the Netherlands
The European Union Water Framework Directive (WFD) has provided the European Member States with a range of interacting governance challenges. This article studies three of these (the need for new administrative arrangements, public participation, and the enforced strict time frame). It questions how these interacting governance challenges were addressed in implementing the WFD in the Netherlands – a particularly interesting country since the European Commission assesses its implementation process in relatively positive terms, while an in-depth study reported on in this article tells a contrasting story. Based on this study, the article concludes that especially the interaction effects between the governance challenges may help us to better understand the outcome of the WFD-implementation process, and to provide more suitable advice as to how to improve the implementation process in future rounds.
Contrasting stories on overcoming governance challenges: the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in the Netherlands
The European Union Water Framework Directive (WFD) has provided the European Member States with a range of interacting governance challenges. This article studies three of these (the need for new administrative arrangements, public participation, and the enforced strict time frame). It questions how these interacting governance challenges were addressed in implementing the WFD in the Netherlands – a particularly interesting country since the European Commission assesses its implementation process in relatively positive terms, while an in-depth study reported on in this article tells a contrasting story. Based on this study, the article concludes that especially the interaction effects between the governance challenges may help us to better understand the outcome of the WFD-implementation process, and to provide more suitable advice as to how to improve the implementation process in future rounds.
Contrasting stories on overcoming governance challenges: the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in the Netherlands
van der Heijden, Jeroen (author) / ten Heuvelhof, Ernst (author) / Broekhans, Bertien (author) / van der Arend, Sonja (author) / van Bueren, Ellen (author) / Harteveld, Casper (author) / van Ruijven, Theo (author)
Local Environment ; 19 ; 318-333
2014-03-16
16 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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