Policy Diffusion in the Context of International River Basin Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Metz ◽  
Manuel Fischer
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Policy Diffusion ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
International River Basin ◽  
International River

scholarly journals Assessment framework of actor strategies in international river basin management, the case of Deltarhine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Renner ◽  
Sander Meijerink ◽  
Pieter van der Zaag ◽  
Toine Smits
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Local Level ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
International Rivers ◽  
Cooperative Strategies ◽  
International River Basin ◽  
International River

Abstract The combined effects of socio-economic growth as well as climate change exert increasing pressure on international river basins and require dedicated cooperative efforts to jointly manage international rivers. Cooperative strategies drawn from scientific literature, empirical research and practitioner’s handbooks are explored and clustered into six key dimensions of goals, instruments, structures, actors, leadership and resources to provide an assessment tool of actor strategies for both scientists and practitioners. The exploratory framework is applied to Dutch–German cooperation in the delta of the Rhine catchment, testing its conceptual validity and applicability in international river basin management as well as providing policy recommendations for the study area. The assessment framework can serve as an instrument to inventory, map and evaluate the importance of specific actor strategies and to facilitate dialogue and cross-border cooperation between riparian countries. Alternatively, the framework can be put to use, for example by downstream countries, to assess and coordinate their range of strategies on the national, regional and local level in order to engage and influence their counterparts.

Approaches to Water Dispute Resolution: Applications to Arab-Israeli Negotiations

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-325
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Water Conflict ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
History Of ◽  
Water Dispute ◽  
Water Treaties ◽  
International River

AbstractIncreasing and competing demands among countries for water is a major cause of international disputes. This article builds on research of negotiation processes and institutional frameworks of international river basin management. Its focus is the search for effective approaches that can be applied to the resolution of Arab-Israeli water disputes. While every dispute is unique, the Arab-Israeli situation is not the only case with stubborn and long-standing enmities, shortages of water resources, political and economic power imbalances, absences from negotiations of vital riparians, and rapidly changing political climates. In the Arab-Israeli water dispute, there are both parallels and lessons to be learned from the situations in other river basins.The treaties that have thus far emerged from Arab-Israeli negotiations are briefly reviewed, as is the potential for future regional agreements. The history of other river basin negotiations is useful in charting the future directions of the Arab-Israeli water conflict. Issues include options and modes of negotiation, information and technology sharing, the importance of the geopolitical climate, comprehensive versus incremental agreements, linkage of water agreements to environmental and other issues, the power balance among participants, cost-sharing strategies, and institutions, and the capacity for implementation.Although the strained political relations between Arabs and Israelis have worsened in the past year and one-half, the water treaties do not seem endangered for the most part. Indeed, water negotiations may again become one of the confidence-building measures that can facilitate other more general negotiations, after the current stalemate is broken.

Strategic Environment Assessment of River Basin Management Plans: Proposal for an Integrated Assessment

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (03) ◽  
pp. 1550029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Vicente ◽  
Gonzalo Méndez
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Hydrological Cycle ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
River Basin Management Plans ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
International River

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) adopted an integrated approach for the management and governance of European rivers, which led Spain and Portugal to carry out coordinated hydrological planning of the international basins, considering them as unique realities from ecological, hydrological and hydrogeological perspectives. In spite of this ecosystemic basis, the Directive allowed river basin management plans (RBMPs) to cover those parts of the international river basin districts located within the territory of each member state if joint planning was not possible. Moreover, under the requirements of the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive (SEA Directive), both countries are obliged to submit the RBMPs for SEA and to consult the authorities and the public in other states if a plan could affect the environment in a neighbouring state. In the case of the hydrological planning of the Miño river basin and its coastal and estuarine waters, the SEA was conducted through a split SEA at the level of national sub-basins. The present study analyses the findings of the two SEA procedures on the Miño river during the recent hydrological cycle under the requirements of WFD and SEA Directive. Thus, from an integrated approach adopted by WFD that demands interdependence and interrelationship between both assessments, the reality of two separated assessments revealed disconnections concerning the methodologies used, asymmetries in the detection of cross-border effects and an uneven national and transboundary participation. Overcoming these deficiencies and improving efficiency is a challenge for the new hydrological cycle. An elaboration of joint SEA between co-riparian states that could help respond to the European Union (EU) expectations from an integrated approach is recommended.

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