A Practitioners’ View on the Application of the Water Framework Directive and the Floods Directive in Italy

2021 ◽  
pp. 369-393
Author(s):  
Marta Martinengo ◽  
Antonio Ziantoni ◽  
Fabio Lazzeri ◽  
Giorgio Rosatti ◽  
Riccardo Rigon
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Floods Directive

Integrating the implementation of the European Union Water Framework Directive and Floods Directive in Ireland

2011 ◽  
Vol 64 (10) ◽  
pp. 2044-2051 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Earle ◽  
S. Blacklocke ◽  
M. Bruen ◽  
G. Almeida ◽  
D. Keating
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Physical Property ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
The European Union ◽  
River Basin Management Plans ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Floods Directive

Water Framework Directive (WFD) statutory authorities and stakeholders in Ireland are now challenged with the issue of how the proposed programmes of measures in the newly required River Basin Management Plans – designed to protect and restore good ecology by reverting as closely as possible back to natural conditions – are to be implemented in a way that concurrently complies with other existing and emerging intersecting European Union legislation, such as the Floods Directive (FD). The WFD is driven largely by ecological considerations, whereas the FD and other legislation are more geared towards protecting physical property and mitigating public safety risks. Thus many of the same waterbodies, especially heavily modified waterbodies, arguably have somewhat competing policy objectives put upon them. This paper explores the means by which Ireland might best achieve the highest degrees of cost effectiveness, economic efficiency and institutional durability in pursuing the common and overarching objective of the WFD and FD – to ensure Irish waterways are put to their highest valued uses.

AN EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF EPA RESEARCH IN THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION IN IRELAND

2009 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-402
Author(s):  
Alice Wemaere ◽  
Garrett Kilroy ◽  
Lisa Sheils ◽  
Brian Donlon
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive
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