GOVAQUA - Governance innovations for a transition to sustainable and equitable water use in Europe

GOVAQUA确定、评估、开发和验证创新的治理工具和方法，以支持和加快欧洲向可持续和公平用水的过渡。迫切需要这样的过渡，以协调用水和环境需求，并实现欧盟世界水资源开发计划、绿色协议和联合国可持续发展目标的目标。通过采用案例研究和活实验室相结合的跨学科方法，高技能的GOVAQUA团队将系统地分析和比较整个欧洲现有的水治理系统，重点是水的使用及其对农业、工业、能源生产、水务和公民作用的影响。GOVAQUA首次将水治理的可持续性过渡概念化，并为其评估制定了相关的标准和指标。为了应对过渡时期的系统性发展需要，该项目涵盖1)立法和监管、2)多方利益攸关方参与和协作、3)经济和金融以及4)信息共享数字解决方案方面的利基治理创新。对与之相关的良好做法进行了系统的审查、分析和比较，并在实际行动中与主要利益攸关方共同制定、评估和验证了在法国、芬兰、西班牙、英国和罗马尼亚以及芬兰和瑞典之间的跨国河流流域、分流域或集水区的六个活实验室。GOVAQUA提供了新的知识、参与性工具和良好做法指南，为可持续和公平的水未来制定了道路。项目成果将以战略性和有针对性的方式传播给欧盟和成员国的政策制定者和官员、欧洲流域管理界、用水和用水部门、非政府组织和水治理专家组织，并向联合体伙伴国家和其他地区的公民增强能力

GOVAQUA identifies, assesses, develops and validates innovative governance instruments and approaches to support and accelerate a transition towards sustainable and equitable water use in Europe. Such a transition is urgently required to reconcile water uses and environmental needs and to reach the aims of the EU WFD, the Green Deal and the UN SDGs. By adopting an inter- and transdisciplinary methodology that combines case studies with living labs, the highly skilled GOVAQUA team will systematically analyse and compare existing water governance systems across Europe, focusing on water use and its impacts in agriculture, industries, energy production, water utilities and the role of citizens. GOVAQUA conceptualises for the first time sustainability transition in water governance, and creates associated criteria and indicators for its assessment. In order to respond to systemic development needs for the transition, the project covers niche governance innovations in 1) legislation and regulation, 2) multi-stakeholder participation and collaboration, 3) economics and finance, and 4) digital solutions for information sharing. Good practices related to them are systematically reviewed, analysed and compared, and further co-developed, assessed and validated with key stakeholders in real-world action situations of six living labs in river basins, sub-basins or catchments in France, Finland, Spain, the UK and Romania, and transnationally between Finland and Sweden. GOVAQUA delivers new knowledge, participatory tools and good practice guidelines laying out pathways towards sustainable and equitable water future. The project results will be disseminated in a strategic and targeted manner to EU and Member State policy makers and officials, European river basin management community, water and water using sectors, NGOs and water governance expert organisations, and communicated to empower citizens in the consortium partner countries and beyond