The politics of multi-scalar action in river basin management: Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD)
The politics of multi-scalar action in river basin management: Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD)
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DOI：
10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.07.003
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
Frank Hüesker;T. Moss
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作者：
Frank Hüesker;T. Moss
环境治理的学者们对规模问题越来越感兴趣。使河流流域管理制度化的努力是一个相关的范例，因为它们渴望加强水文维斯政治行政治理的规模。欧盟水框架指令（WFD）是全球最雄心勃勃的政策举措之一，旨在围绕河流流域的水文尺度重新配置水管理规划。虽然人们普遍认为，WFD是重新调整水治理在欧洲，很少有实证研究已经进行，以确定在多大程度上是这种情况下，什么标量的战略和做法正在出现，以及什么效果。本文讨论了这些开放的问题，研究分析了多标量的行动，水管理机构，水管理机构，地方当局和利益集团参与实施WFD。它调查了利益相关者是如何从地方到欧洲的规模，并返回到进一步的WFD实施过程中，他们的利益标量，侧重于在德国的Wupper子流域。借鉴概念洞察力的人文地理学辩论的政治规模和重新调整的过程中，我们展示了所有相关的利益相关者如何越来越多地跨尺度工作，以提高他们的利益，但在非常不同的方式，不同程度的审议和不同的效果。一个类型学的多标量行动的发展来解释这种多样性。本文得出结论，多标量行动是如何改变不仅演员之间的权力关系，但也标量配置本身。
Scholars of environmental governance are increasingly intrigued by issues of scale. Efforts to institutionalise river basin management represent a pertinent exemplar, as they aspire to strengthen hydrological vis-à-vis political–administrative scales of governance. The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) is one of the most ambitious policy initiatives worldwide to reconfigure water management planning around the hydrological scale of river basins. Whilst it is widely assumed that the WFD is rescaling water governance in Europe, few empirical studies have been conducted to ascertain how far this is the case, what scalar strategies and practices are emerging and to what effect. The paper addresses these open issues with a study analysing the multi-scalar actions of water authorities, water management organisations, local authorities and interest groups involved in implementing the WFD. It investigates how stakeholders are acting scalar from the local to the European scale and back to further their interests in the course of WFD implementation, focussing on the Wupper sub-basin in Germany. Drawing for conceptual insight on the human geography debate on the politics of scale and processes of rescaling, we demonstrate how all relevant stakeholders are increasingly working across scales to advance their interests but in very different ways, with different degrees of deliberation and to different effect. A typology of multi-scalar action is developed to interpret this diversity. The paper draws conclusions on how multi-scalar action is altering not only power relations between the actors but also the scalar configurations themselves.