RT Book, Section
T1 Water planning and management after the EU Water Framework Directive
A1 De Stefano, Lucia
A1 Hernandez-Mora, Nuria
A2 De Stefano, Lucia
A2 Llamas, Ramón
AB This chapter provides an overview of the different legal, administrative and economic factors that provide the institutional context for water management in Spain, focusing on the effects of the 2000 European Water Framework Directive (WFD). At present and partially due to the WFD implementation process, the Spanish water sector is experiencing a slow transition from old to new water paradigms. Highlights in this sense are the consideration of the achievement of ecological quality as a primary planning and management objective; an increase in public participation and transparency in water-related decision processes; the economic analysis of water services; and an increased emphasis on water demand management. The achievement of the WFD objectives faces several challenges and uncertainties that are of technical, financial and political nature. However, possibly the key to a successful implementation of the WFD and a real shift of paradigm lays in strengthening the link between land use and water management and in creating institutional structures that facilitate co-responsibility and full cooperation between the central state and the regions, who hold most of the responsibilities on land use management.
PB CRC Press
SN 9780429097966
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/45771
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/45771
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025