Integrated Governance and Water Basin Management : Conditions for Regime Change and Sustainability /

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 sta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bressers, Hans
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kuks, Stefan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer, 2004.
Series:Environment & policy ; 41.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • List of contributors
  • Governance of water resources: Introduction
  • Institutional resource regimes and sustainability: Theoretical backgrounds and hypotheses
  • Harboring water in a crowded European delta: The IJsselmeer and the Regge in the Netherlands
  • Diverging regimes within a recently federalised state: The Vesdre and the Dender in Belgium
  • An innovative but uncompleted integration process: The Audomarois and the Svre Nantaise in France
  • Redistributing water uses and living with scarcity: The Matarraa and the Mula in Spain
  • Competing integration principles in a decentralising state: The Chiese and the Marecchia in Italy
  • Rivalry based communities in Europes water tower: The Valmaggia and the Seetal Valley in Switzerland
  • Integrated governance and water basin management: Comparative analysis and conclusions.