|
|
|
PDF
|
|
Type:
|
Conference Paper |
|
Author:
|
Meyer, C.; Thiel, Andreas |
|
Conference:
|
Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons |
|
Location:
|
Hyderabad, India |
|
Conf. Date:
|
January 10-14 |
|
Date:
|
2011 |
|
URI:
|
https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7119
|
|
Sector:
|
Water Resource & Irrigation |
|
Region:
|
Europe |
|
Subject(s):
|
water management
integration
transaction costs
water pollution
|
|
Abstract:
|
"The transposition of the Water Framework Directive requires institutional change, in
order to comply with its substantive and procedural requirements. This paper
investigates changes in water governance in Germany with regards to the
configuration of actors involved and the scope and spatial extent of issues
considered in water management. In comparison to water planning and management
according to administrative boundaries the WFD demands for the re-scaling of River
Management to ecosystem units. Based on qualitative methods the paper presents
the illustrative case study of the Odra river basin and the governance of nutrient
pollution, whose origins are located all along the river and which impacts the coastal
zones specifically. We look at public administrations operating within different
administrative boundaries, the role of environmental NGOs and the agricultural
sector, and formal and informal institutional change concerning their interrelation. To
capture these changes we construct a conceptual framework to evaluate institutional
change at three levels: formal institutional change, institutional change concerning
the formal and informal interfaces between actors, and changes in actors’ mental
models. We explain complex institutional change as a product of multiple dynamics,
including the content of shared mental models and their normative contents for
action, and a benefit-cost calculation, including the consideration of transaction costs
concerning compliance with substantive and procedural prescriptions that the WFD
makes. Empirically, the paper describes institutional change in each of these spheres."
|