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@article{Jager2016TransformingEW, title={Transforming European Water Governance? Participation and River Basin Management under the EU Water Framework Directive in 13 Member States}, author={Nicolas W. Jager and Edward Challies and Elisa Kochsk{\"a}mper and Jens Newig and David Benson and Kirsty L. Blackstock and Kevin Collins and Anna Ernst and Mariele Evers and Judith Feichtinger and Oliver Fritsch and Geoffrey D. Gooch and Wiebke Grund and Beatrice Hedelin and Nuria Hern{\'a}ndez-Mora and Frank H{\"u}esker and Dave Huitema and Kenneth Irvine and Andreas Klinke and Leonie Lange and Delphine Loupsans and Mark N. Lubell and Carmen Maganda and Piotr Matczak and Marc Par{\'e}s and Heli Saarikoski and Lenka Slav{\'i}kov{\'a} and Sonja van der Arend and Yorck von Korff}, journal={Water}, year={2016}, volume={8}, pages={156}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:18262148}}
  • Nicolas W. Jager, E. Challies, Y. V. Korff
  • Published 19 April 2016
  • Environmental Science, Political Science
  • Water

The European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires EU member states to produce and implement river basin management plans, which are to be designed and updated via participatory processes that inform, consult with, and actively involve all interested stakeholders. The assumption of the European Commission is that stakeholder participation, and institutional adaptation and procedural innovation to facilitate it, are essential to the effectiveness of river basin planning and…

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