Jenny Rowbottom, Morten Graversgaard, Isobel Wright, Karl Dudman, Susanne Klages, Claudia Heidecke, Nicolas Surdyk, Laurence Gourcy, Ines Amorim Leitão, António Dinis Ferreira, Susanne Wuijts, Sandra Boekhold, Donnacha G Doody, Matjaž Glavan, Rozalija Cvejić, Gerard Velthof
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) aims to protect and improve water quality across Europe through an integrative and multi-level water governance approach. The goal is to ensure that water quality in Europe meets good ecological status by 2027. Whilst the WFD has been hailed as a cornerstone for governance innovation in water management, most EU member states (MS) still struggle to achieve good ecological status of their waters. The realignment to a multi-level governance structure under the WFD is discretionary, and has generated diversity in WFD multi-level governance implementation approaches and final governance arrangements across MS...
July 6, 2022: Journal of Environmental Management