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Integrated River Basin Management & the Water Framework Directieve:

Integrated River Basin Management & the Water Framework Directieve:. The Holy Grail of border-crossing cooperation?. Leo Santbergen Senior Policy Adviser/Outdoor PhD Brabantse Delta Water Management Authority. Content. Definition of Integrated River Basin Management

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Integrated River Basin Management & the Water Framework Directieve:

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  1. Integrated River Basin Management & the Water Framework Directieve: The Holy Grail of border-crossing cooperation? Leo Santbergen Senior Policy Adviser/Outdoor PhD Brabantse Delta Water Management Authority

  2. Content • Definition of Integrated River Basin Management • Short introductionto the Water Framework Directive • Cross-border cooperation with the FlemishRegion of Belgium • Reflection

  3. Integrated River Basin Management? 2 1 3 Three Gorges Dam, China Water in Utrecht Education at Breda

  4. Integrated River Basin Management: Aims at: • Sustainability: Planet + People = Profit • Equitable and reasonable use & prevention of significant harm to other riparian states By means of: • Envisioning the future & joint fact finding • Interactive policy making & active involvement of stakeholders • Cross-sector coordination and cooperation

  5. Integrated River Basin Management: What happens in the real world? • Different views, different interests: Ambiguous Ambitions • Upstream-downstream asymmetries • Differences in (political) cultures & planning traditions • Absence of supranational authority: sovereignty and subsidiarity

  6. Language boundary Administrative boundaries

  7. Nature versus economy? Nitratesensitivearea Flood risks Distribution of available water

  8. Water Framework Directive (1) 2009 2027 2015

  9. Eems Rijn Maas Schelde The Water Framework Directive (2) River Basins

  10. The Water Framework Directive (3): • 1980s till October 2000: Delicate political drafting and negotiation process: ambiguous principles, objectives & requirements • Huge step forward: harmonisation of European River Basin Management • Strong trigger for internal integration • Achilles Heels: cross-sector integration & multilateral coordination

  11. My research: A hybrid analytical framework

  12. Flemish – Dutch cooperation (1):

  13. Flemish – Dutch Cooperation (2) Brabantse Delta Province of Antwerp

  14. Flemish –Dutch Cooperation (3) : the issues • Anticipation of floods & droughts • Border-crossing pollution & accidents • Fish migration • Institutionaldifferences • Daily management & maintenance • Socio-economicdevelopment of ruralareas

  15. Flemish –Dutch Cooperation (4): Example

  16. Flemish –Dutch Cooperation (5): Example

  17. Succes (f)actors & Challenges Success (f)actors: • Invest in personal relations • Acknowledgesimilaritiesanddifferences • Focus on commonsnot on borders • Participation in eachothersstructures • Joint experiments, excursions, workshops Challenges: • Different politicalprioritiesandprocess stages • Downstream state alwaysasks more • Linkingbilateralwithmultilateraland European process

  18. Reflection • New modes of European governance? • Europe matters: without Europe political attention to water quality issues of former forerunner states would have been reduced significantly • The Water Framework Directive does not fill in the supranational void at the multilateral level • Transboundary orientations and co-operation? • Informal rules & networks of policy entrepreneurs • No blueprint for success: upstream-downstream asymmetries remain dominant

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