Transformation to Healthy Water Ecology—Institutional Requirements, Deficits and Options in European and German Perspective
| Autor: | Moritz Reese |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
Underpinning Lower Saxony ecologic water quality Ecology (disciplines) media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development lcsh:TJ807-830 finance lcsh:Renewable energy sources 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences German State (polity) Comparative research Political science Germany Enforcement lcsh:Environmental sciences 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common lcsh:GE1-350 Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Ecology lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants Perspective (graphical) organization language.human_language 010601 ecology lcsh:TD194-195 Water Framework Directive language EU water framework directive river restoration planning |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 3368, p 3368 (2021) Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 6 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) obliges EU Member States to achieve good ecological status in all surface waters by 2027 at the latest. In many regions, this implies fundamental transformation from engineered water landscapes back to near-natural structures. By example of the German State of Lower Saxony it is shown how this transformation of water landscapes essentially requires a transformation of the institutional foundations of water management, too. It is argued from a legal perspective that certain general, justiciable minimum requirements are to be deduced from the WFD as to (1) planning and enforcement of restoration measures, (2) land acquisition, (3) organisation and (4) finance which delimit the ample margins Member States enjoy in designing the institutional substructure. With regard to Lower Saxony, it is explained why this State is clearly failing to meet the minimum requirements and how it needs to transform its institutional arrangements to make them fit for purpose. The article concludes that WFD enforcement should pay more attention to the institutional underpinning and it submits that examples and benchmarks should be further explored by comparative research. |
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