TY - CHAP

T1 - Stakeholder engagement in Water Framework Directive planning in the United Kingdom: Two case studies from Northern Ireland and Scotland

AU - Challies, Edward

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Water governance in the United Kingdom (UK) has undergone considerable change over the last century. Whereas the management of water resources was highly localised and fragmented at the beginning of the 20th century, water policy and institutional reforms over the following decades saw the gradual emergence of a catchment-based management paradigm. The Belfast Lough and Lagan Catchment Stakeholder Group (CSG) met five times between September 2007 and the end of 2009. The roughly biannual evening meetings were hosted at different venues throughout the CSG area, and were chaired by several different Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) officials over the period. NIEA staff were apparently satisfied with the plans and measures as a basis for engagement and partnership-building, but some stakeholders were less positive. Stakeholder learning through the CSG process appears to have been limited to individuals and groups learning about how to effectively engage in Water Framework Directive (WFD) processes and specific local projects.

AB - Water governance in the United Kingdom (UK) has undergone considerable change over the last century. Whereas the management of water resources was highly localised and fragmented at the beginning of the 20th century, water policy and institutional reforms over the following decades saw the gradual emergence of a catchment-based management paradigm. The Belfast Lough and Lagan Catchment Stakeholder Group (CSG) met five times between September 2007 and the end of 2009. The roughly biannual evening meetings were hosted at different venues throughout the CSG area, and were chaired by several different Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) officials over the period. NIEA staff were apparently satisfied with the plans and measures as a basis for engagement and partnership-building, but some stakeholders were less positive. Stakeholder learning through the CSG process appears to have been limited to individuals and groups learning about how to effectively engage in Water Framework Directive (WFD) processes and specific local projects.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication

UR - https://www.routledge.com/Participation-for-Effective-Environmental-Governance-Evidence-from-European/Kochskaemper-Challies-Jager-Newig/p/book/9781138713291

U2 - 10.4324/9781315193649

DO - 10.4324/9781315193649

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-1-138-71329-1

T3 - Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

SP - 90

EP - 113

BT - Participation and Effective Environmental Governance

A2 - Kochskämper, Elisa

A2 - Challies, Edward

A2 - Jager, Nicolas W.

A2 - Newig, Jens

PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

CY - London

ER -