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Provedor de dados: | 7
País: | Canada
Título: | Spatial Misfit in Participatory River Basin Management: Effects on Social Learning, a Comparative Analysis of German and French Case Studies
Autores: | Borowski, Ilke; University of Osnabrueck; borowski@usf.uos.de; Pahl-Wostl, Claudia; University of Osnabrueck; pahl@usf.uos.de.
Data: | 2008-02-28
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Institutions; Public participation; River basin management; Social learning; Spatial misfit; Spatial scales; Water management; WFD.
Resumo: | With the introduction of river basin management, as prescribed by the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), participatory structures are frequently introduced at the hydrological scale without fully adapting them to the decision-making structure. This results in parallel structures and spatial misfits within the institutional settings of river basin governance systems. By analyzing French and German case studies, we show how social learning (SL) is impeded by such misfits. We also demonstrate that river basin-scale institutions or actors that link parallel structures are essential for promoting river basins as management entities, and for encouraging SL between actors at the river basin scale. In the multi-scale, multi-level settings of river basin governance, it is difficult to fully exclude spatial misfits. Thus, it is important to take our insights into account in the current transition of water management from the administrative to the hydrological scale to get the greatest benefit from SL processes.
Tipo: | Peer-Reviewed Reports
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | vol13/iss1/art7/
Editor: | Resilience Alliance
Formato: | text/html application/pdf
Fonte: | Ecology and Society; Vol. 13, No. 1 (2008)