The Wicked Problem the Water Framework Directive Cannot Solve. The Governance Approach in Dealing with Pollution of Nutrients in Surface Water in the Netherlands, Flanders, Lower Saxony, Denmark and Ireland

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is typically a framework directive that tries to encourage integration of policies for water quality and agriculture. Nutrients (nitrates, phosphates) from agricultural sources remain a ‘wicked problem’ in realizing the aims of the WFD, partly because the directive has to rely on other, neighboring policies to tackle to problem pressure of nutrients; it seems to lack instruments and measures to directly intervene in relevant agricultural policies. This contribution describes the different governance approaches of five member states and regions (The Netherlan... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Mark Wiering
Duncan Liefferink
Daan Boezeman
Maria Kaufmann
Ann Crabbé
Nanda Kurstjens
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Reihe/Periodikum: Water, Vol 12, Iss 1240, p 1240 (2020)
Verlag/Hrsg.: MDPI AG
Schlagwörter: water governance / water framework directive / water quality / diffuse pollution / nutrients / policy integration / Hydraulic engineering / TC1-978 / Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes / TD201-500
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.3390/w12051240