Adaptatie aan klimaatverandering in het Nederlandse waterbeheer: Verantwoordelijkheden en aansprakelijkheid ; Adaptation to climate change in Dutch water management: Responsibilities and liability

This thesis is about adaptation to climate change in Dutch water management. Within this framework, questions about legal responsibilities and (effects of) threatening liability have been addressed. However no clear adaptation obligations have been found in international and European law, especially the international climate debate proved to have an agenda-setting effect. Within both the EU and the Netherlands, adaptation policy has been developed. The due care principle (codified in the Dutch GALA) holds a general obligation, however, for Dutch water management authorities to take (uncertain)... Mehr ...