Integrated Governance and Water Basin Management

From the reviews: "This book constitutes the research findings of the project 'EUWARENESS: European Water Regimes and the Notion of a Sustainable Status' ... . The book is very well-written and makes a significant contribution to the field ... . The variety of case studies from different geographical and institutional settings ... makes this volume very useful and informative. The well-structured combination of narrative and analytical sections makes the research results easily accessible for a spectrum of readers including researchers, students, as well as policy makers." (Stefanie Engel and Astrid Zabel, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, Vol. 45 (4), 2006)

• 1 Governance of water resources Introduction.- 1.1 Resource access, rivalries and property domains.- 1.2 Analysis of institutional regimes and regime evolution.- 1.3 Institutional criteria for sustainable water management.- 1.4 The case studies on water basins in this book.- 2 Institutional resource regimes and sustainability Theoretical backgrounds and hypotheses.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 The public governance and property rights components.- 2.3 Change toward integrated resource regimes.- 2.4 The sustainability implications of institutional resource regimes.- 2.5 Overview of hypotheses.- 2.6 Case study design.- 3 Harboring water in a crowded European delta The IJsselmeer and the Regge in the Netherlands.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Transitions towards integration in the national water regime.- 3.3 The IJsselmeer: nurturing nature in an artificial lake.- 3.4 The Regge: undoing water management of the past.- 3.5 What do the cases illustrate for the Netherlands?.- 3.6 Conclusion.- 4 Diverging regimes within a recently federalised state The Vesdre and the Dender in Belgium.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Deepening and divergence of the regional water regimes.- 4.3 The Vesdre river basin in Wallonia.- 4.4 The Dender river basin in Flanders.- 4.5 Comparative analysis.- 4.6 Conclusion.- 5 An innovative but uncompleted integration process The Audomarois and the Sèvre Nantaise in France.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 The French national water regime.- 5.3 The Audomarois basin.- 5.4 The Sèvre Nantaise basin.- 5.5 Learning from the French cases.- 5.6 Conclusion.- 6 Redistributing water uses and living with scarcity The Matarraña and the Mula in Spain.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 National context.- 6.3 The Matarraña river basin.- 6.4 The Mula river basin.- 6.5 The two cases in a broader context.-6.6 Conclusions.- 7 Competing integration principles in a decentralising state The Chiese and the Marecchia in Italy.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Too many competing integration principles?.- 7.3 The Idro lake and the Chiese river basin.- 7.4 The Marecchia-Conca river basin.- 7.5 Regime change, integration and sustainability.- 7.6 Conclusion.- 8 Rivalry based communities in Europe’s water tower The Valmaggia and the Seetal Valley in Switzerland.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Three branches of Swiss water policy: substantial integration and persisting institutional fragmentation.- 8.3 Inventing quantitative water protection: the Valmaggia valley.- 8.4 Fighting against water pollution: the Seetal valley.- 8.5 Analysis of the Valmaggia and the Seetal valley cases in their context.- 8.6 Conclusions: ‘problem basin approach’ in Switzerland.- 9 Integrated governance and water basin management Comparative analysis and conclusions.- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.2 Regime change.- 9.3 Implications of regime changes for sustainable use.- 9.4 Explaining regime changes by change agents and conditions.- 9.5 Outlook: our conclusions in the perspective of the European water management policy.