Contrasting stories on overcoming governance challenges: the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in the Netherlands |
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Authors: | Jeroen van der Heijden Ernst ten Heuvelhof Bertien Broekhans Sonja van der Arend Ellen van Bueren Casper Harteveld |
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Institution: | 1. College of Asia and the Pacific, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), Australian National University, Canberra, Australiaj.j.vanderheijden@anu.edu.au;3. Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | water policy policy implementation EU Water Framework Directive public participation |
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