TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment framework of actor strategies in international river basin management, the case of Deltarhine
AU - Renner, Tobias
AU - Meijerink, Sander
AU - van der Zaag, Pieter
AU - Smits, Toine
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The combined effects of socio-economic growth as well as climate change exert increasing pressure on international river basins and require dedicated cooperative efforts to jointly manage international rivers. Cooperative strategies drawn from scientific literature, empirical research and practitioner’s handbooks are explored and clustered into six key dimensions of goals, instruments, structures, actors, leadership and resources to provide an assessment tool of actor strategies for both scientists and practitioners. The exploratory framework is applied to Dutch–German cooperation in the delta of the Rhine catchment, testing its conceptual validity and applicability in international river basin management as well as providing policy recommendations for the study area. The assessment framework can serve as an instrument to inventory, map and evaluate the importance of specific actor strategies and to facilitate dialogue and cross-border cooperation between riparian countries. Alternatively, the framework can be put to use, for example by downstream countries, to assess and coordinate their range of strategies on the national, regional and local level in order to engage and influence their counterparts.
AB - The combined effects of socio-economic growth as well as climate change exert increasing pressure on international river basins and require dedicated cooperative efforts to jointly manage international rivers. Cooperative strategies drawn from scientific literature, empirical research and practitioner’s handbooks are explored and clustered into six key dimensions of goals, instruments, structures, actors, leadership and resources to provide an assessment tool of actor strategies for both scientists and practitioners. The exploratory framework is applied to Dutch–German cooperation in the delta of the Rhine catchment, testing its conceptual validity and applicability in international river basin management as well as providing policy recommendations for the study area. The assessment framework can serve as an instrument to inventory, map and evaluate the importance of specific actor strategies and to facilitate dialogue and cross-border cooperation between riparian countries. Alternatively, the framework can be put to use, for example by downstream countries, to assess and coordinate their range of strategies on the national, regional and local level in order to engage and influence their counterparts.
KW - Assessment framework
KW - Cross-border cooperation
KW - International river basin management
KW - Network management strategies
KW - Rhine
KW - Transboundary water regimes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85092496664&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10784-020-09512-5
DO - 10.1007/s10784-020-09512-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85092496664
SN - 1567-9764
VL - 21 (2021)
SP - 255
EP - 283
JO - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
JF - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
IS - 2
ER -