How Hercules cleans up the Augean stables: differentiated implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive

Realising the goals of the European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive is difficult. The differentiation of water policies according to local conditions enjoys increasing attention and may be necessary to achieve good ecological status in all European waters. This paper seeks to explore to what ex...

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Autores principales:	Duncan Liefferink, Morten Graversgaard, Helle Ørsted Nielsen, Daan Boezeman, Ann Crabbé, Mark Wiering, Maria Kaufmann
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Publicado:	IWA Publishing 2021
Materias:	eu member states implementation policy instruments spatial differentiation water framework directive water policy River, lake, and water-supply engineering (General) TC401-506
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:880b57a206654b6eb9ee7e070b11f0de2021-11-05T20:18:19ZHow Hercules cleans up the Augean stables: differentiated implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive1366-70171996-975910.2166/wp.2021.024https://doaj.org/article/880b57a206654b6eb9ee7e070b11f0de2021-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://wp.iwaponline.com/content/23/4/1000https://doaj.org/toc/1366-7017https://doaj.org/toc/1996-9759Realising the goals of the European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive is difficult. The differentiation of water policies according to local conditions enjoys increasing attention and may be necessary to achieve good ecological status in all European waters. This paper seeks to explore to what extent and how local water quality determines the degree of coercion, i.e. the extent to which differentiated policies are voluntary or rather imposed upon policy addressees, of spatially differentiated water policies. It does so on the basis of seven cases in five EU Member States. For highly polluted waters, spatially differentiated policies tend either to make the use of authoritative policy instruments, i.e. coercion by way of formal regulation, or to rely on the threat to introduce such regulation. For preventing the deterioration of relatively ‘clean’ waters, voluntary instruments based on information and persuasion dominate, often supported by subsidies and/or the direct input of public resources. In relation to the spatial differentiation of water policies, issues of data demand, equality and legitimacy have to be taken into account. HIGHLIGHTS The paper explores the relationship between local water quality and policy instruments used for locally differentiated policies under the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD).; In case of a long distance to the WFD targets, instruments with a high degree of coercion, e.g. formal regulation, prevail.; If local quality is close to the WFD targets, lower degrees of coercion, e.g. information or subsidies, prevail.;Duncan LiefferinkMorten GraversgaardHelle Ørsted NielsenDaan BoezemanAnn CrabbéMark WieringMaria KaufmannIWA Publishingarticleeu member statesimplementationpolicy instrumentsspatial differentiationwater framework directivewater policyRiver, lake, and water-supply engineering (General)TC401-506ENWater Policy, Vol 23, Iss 4, Pp 1000-1016 (2021)
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topic	eu member states implementation policy instruments spatial differentiation water framework directive water policy River, lake, and water-supply engineering (General) TC401-506
spellingShingle	eu member states implementation policy instruments spatial differentiation water framework directive water policy River, lake, and water-supply engineering (General) TC401-506 Duncan Liefferink Morten Graversgaard Helle Ørsted Nielsen Daan Boezeman Ann Crabbé Mark Wiering Maria Kaufmann How Hercules cleans up the Augean stables: differentiated implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive
description	Realising the goals of the European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive is difficult. The differentiation of water policies according to local conditions enjoys increasing attention and may be necessary to achieve good ecological status in all European waters. This paper seeks to explore to what extent and how local water quality determines the degree of coercion, i.e. the extent to which differentiated policies are voluntary or rather imposed upon policy addressees, of spatially differentiated water policies. It does so on the basis of seven cases in five EU Member States. For highly polluted waters, spatially differentiated policies tend either to make the use of authoritative policy instruments, i.e. coercion by way of formal regulation, or to rely on the threat to introduce such regulation. For preventing the deterioration of relatively ‘clean’ waters, voluntary instruments based on information and persuasion dominate, often supported by subsidies and/or the direct input of public resources. In relation to the spatial differentiation of water policies, issues of data demand, equality and legitimacy have to be taken into account. HIGHLIGHTS The paper explores the relationship between local water quality and policy instruments used for locally differentiated policies under the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD).; In case of a long distance to the WFD targets, instruments with a high degree of coercion, e.g. formal regulation, prevail.; If local quality is close to the WFD targets, lower degrees of coercion, e.g. information or subsidies, prevail.;
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author	Duncan Liefferink Morten Graversgaard Helle Ørsted Nielsen Daan Boezeman Ann Crabbé Mark Wiering Maria Kaufmann
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title	How Hercules cleans up the Augean stables: differentiated implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive
title_short	How Hercules cleans up the Augean stables: differentiated implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive
title_full	How Hercules cleans up the Augean stables: differentiated implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive
title_fullStr	How Hercules cleans up the Augean stables: differentiated implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive
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publisher	IWA Publishing
publishDate	2021
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How Hercules cleans up the Augean stables: differentiated implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive

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