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River Contracts for Innovation in Territorial Governance

Maria Laura Scaduto

subject

DialecticWater resourcesgeographygeography.geographical_feature_categoryWater Framework DirectiveDrainage basinNational PolicyBusinessParticipatory managementEnvironmental planningDecentralizationTerritorial governance

description

Emerged in France in 1980s as agreements oriented to the requalification of rivers and lakes, river contracts represent an important outcome of the decentralization process, developed in Europe in reply to the growing institutional fragmentation. In this scenario, rivers have become a dialectic arena in which the exploitation and management of water resources came to terms with environmental instances, and offered the breeding ground for concerted efforts between policy makers, stakeholders and communities. In this chapter, the analysis is focused on the river contract model and the related set of instruments capable of supporting concerted and participatory management processes both with respect to European and national policy frameworks, and the integration with urban an territorial planning.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2016-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42628-0_2