The scalar organization of environmental governance: an institutionalist perspective on the transformation of water and marine governance in the European Union

该项目旨在对欧盟自然资源管理的标量组织进行理论化。这一研究议程的灵感来自于批判性地理学家在规模政治方面的工作。这项研究将检验一个从制度变迁和多层次治理理论中衍生出来的分析框架，以填补这一理论空白。此外，它将回顾制度经济学中对国家的概念化，评估其充分性，以捕捉国家在所确定的动态中的作用，并进一步发展它们。所描述的进程可能意味着行政级别的变化、不同级别之间关系的变化以及主管司法管辖区空间划界的变化，这些变化例如是由于权力下放或采用以河流流域为导向的行政结构造成的。这项研究调查了两个欧洲指令的含义：水框架指令(WFD)和海洋战略框架指令(MSFD)。它们都对在成员国及以下各级组织海洋和水治理具有潜在的重大意义，并坚持类似的管理思想，以实现水域的良好生态状况。将开展一项多案例研究，探讨因执行指令而导致的海洋和水治理的规模重组方面的变化。它将依赖于基于半结构化访谈的定性和定量数据收集，以及对葡萄牙、西班牙和德国的第二和第三来源的审查。它具体涉及社会生态交易的作用、决策过程的结构以及背景因素(如意识形态、相互依存的机构和技术)变化的作用。

The project aims to theorize the scalar organization of natural resource governance in the European Union. This research agenda is inspired by critical geographers‘ work on the politics of scale. The research will examine an analytical framework derived from theories of institutional change and multi-level govern-ance to fill this theoretical gap. Furthermore, it will review conceptualizations of the state in institutional economics, evaluate their adequacy to capture the role of the state in the dynamics identified, and de-velop them further. The described processes may imply shifts in administrative levels, shifts in relations between different levels and changes in spatial delimitations of competent jurisdictions that result, for example, from decentralization or the introduction of river basin oriented administrative structures. The research investigates the implications of two European Directives: the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). They both have potentially great significance for the organization of marine and water governance at the level of Member States and below, and adhere to similar regulatory ideas for achieving good ecological status of waters. A multiple case study on changes in the scalar reorganization of marine and water governance that result from the implementation of the Directives will be carried out. It will rely on qualitative and quantitative data gathering based on semi-structured interviews and review of secondary and tertiary sources looking at Portugal, Spain, and Germany. It specifically addresses the role of social ecological transactions, the structure of decision making processes and the role of changes in contextual factors (such as ideologies, interdependent institutions and technology).