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EUWARENESS European Water Regimes and the Notion of a Sustainable Status

EUWARENESS European Water Regimes and the Notion of a Sustainable Status. Stefan Kuks University of Twente Netherlands. Project organisation. Project started in March 2000 Six countries (Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland)

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EUWARENESS European Water Regimes and the Notion of a Sustainable Status

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  1. EUWARENESSEuropean Water Regimes and the Notion of a Sustainable Status Stefan Kuks University of Twente Netherlands

  2. Project organisation • Project started in March 2000 • Six countries (Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland) • Coordination by University of Twente, partners in Louvain, Tours, Barcelona, Milano, Lausanne • Project completed in February 2002

  3. Project results • Theoretical work • Per country a study of the national regime evolution (1800-2000) • Per country two case studies at water basin level (1970-2000), focusing on integration attempts • Comparative work

  4. Project focus (1) • Rivalries between uses/users of the same water resource (water basin) • Rivalries are based on a specific distribution of property rights • Redistribution of rights as an indicator for more sustainable (integrated) water management

  5. Project focus (2) • Water resource regimes as a combination of property rights and public governance • Evolution of water resource regimes: • no regime (no scarcity) • simple regime (discovery of scarcity) • complex regime (start of rivalry) • integrated regime (crisis, collapse and degradation due to over-use)

  6. Project focus (3) • Regime change: analysis of transitions from one phase to another • Change agents and conditions for regime change • Complex regimes: from fragmentation to to integration • Effective integration (PR redistribution) or integration attempts

  7. Project focus (4) • Dimensions of integration: • regime extent: scope • internal coherence of property rights (role of public domain) • internal coherence of policy design (levels, networks, perspectives, strategies, resources) • external coherence between property rights and policy design (regime coherence)

  8. Forthcoming book publications • The Evolution of National Water Regimes in Europe - Transitions in Water Rights and Water Policies towards Sustainability • Integrated Governance and Water Basin Management - Conditions for Regime Change towards Sustainability • Summer 2003 • Kluwer Academic Publishers

  9. Main questions discussed • Do integrated water regimes lead to more sustainable water use? • What are important indicators for integrated water regimes? • Under what conditions can integrated water regimes be achieved? • What could be the influence of Europe and national conditions, to achieve regime transitions at water basin scale?

  10. www.euwareness.nl

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