Researching participation in environmental governance through the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive
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Participation and Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from Implementing the European Water Framework Directive. ed. / Elisa Kochskämper; Edward Challies; Nicolas W. Jager; Jens Newig. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. p. 3-10 (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management).
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T1 - Researching participation in environmental governance through the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive
AU - Newig, Jens
AU - Kochskämper, Elisa
AU - Challies, Edward
AU - Jager, Nicolas Wilhelm
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Public and stakeholder participation in public environmental decision-making is widely assumed to foster effective governance and secure environmental benefits. Participation is almost never a strict necessity. Even where it is legally mandated to some degree, there remains substantial leeway for decision-makers in terms of exactly how to design and execute a participatory process. Participation is therefore a deliberate choice made by public managers. Participatory water management planning under the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) provides a particularly apt setting to research the link between participation and environmental outcomes. Sustainable water governance itself is a policy field of major importance, which has incorporated collaborative approaches from early on. The WFD explicitly mandates participation in the course of its implementation. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book states that in contrast to cases of public protest or public mediation processes, the WFD only seldom makes headline news.
AB - Public and stakeholder participation in public environmental decision-making is widely assumed to foster effective governance and secure environmental benefits. Participation is almost never a strict necessity. Even where it is legally mandated to some degree, there remains substantial leeway for decision-makers in terms of exactly how to design and execute a participatory process. Participation is therefore a deliberate choice made by public managers. Participatory water management planning under the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) provides a particularly apt setting to research the link between participation and environmental outcomes. Sustainable water governance itself is a policy field of major importance, which has incorporated collaborative approaches from early on. The WFD explicitly mandates participation in the course of its implementation. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book states that in contrast to cases of public protest or public mediation processes, the WFD only seldom makes headline news.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication
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 - 3
EP - 10
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 -