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| Giupponi, Carlo; Cogan, Valeria; la Jeunesse, Isabelle. |
| At the end of 2000, the European Commission published its Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the Official Journal of the European Communities (2000/60/EC). This new legislation provides for achieving the sustainable management of water resources through its 26 articles that focus primarily on the improvement and protection of the quality of European water resources. The WFD adopts an integrated approach, based upon general principles deriving mainly from four disciplinary approaches, Geography; Ecology; Economics and Sociology. The new challenges posed to the people responsible for the management of water resources across the European Union include the "marrying" of existing national policies with the stipulations of the WFD. Research can support this... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Sustainable water management; EU policy; DSS tool; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14463 |
