Three faces of the European Union water initiative : promoting the water framework directive or sustainable development?

dc.contributor.authorFritsch, Oliver
dc.contributor.authorBenson, David
dc.contributor.authorAdelle, Camilla
dc.contributor.emailcamilla.adelle@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-04T11:15:48Z
dc.date.available2021-10-04T11:15:48Z
dc.date.issued2020-10
dc.description.abstractThe Water Framework Directive (WFD) not only recast water management practices within the European Union (EU); it also opened a new chapter for the EU’s external ambitions in the field of water. The central vehicle here is the EU Water Initiative (EUWI), a transnational, multi-actor partnership approach that was established in 2002 to support wider United Nations development goals. The EUWI is underpinned by principles such as river basin planning, resource efficiency, and participation, and the WFD serves as a legal and political template for achieving these aims in interested partner countries. This article analyses the implementation of the Initiative in all five partnerships: Africa, China, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, Latin America, and the Mediterranean; it argues that the Initiative’s origins in sustainable development related global debates led to selective interpretations of water management principles in these diverse social, political and ecological contexts. In short, these five partnerships emphasise different aspects of the three pillars of sustainable development, and their respective interpretations result in the different WFD variants outside of Europe. These patterns, we argue, not only reflect contextual differences but also strategic EU and member state foreign policy imperatives that have influenced how the WFD has been promoted globally.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPolitical Sciencesen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2021en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.water-alternatives.orgen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationFritsch, O., Benson, D., Adelle, C. et al. 2020, 'Three faces of the European Union water initiative : promoting the water framework directive or sustainable development?', Water Alternatives, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 109-730.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1965-0175
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/82033
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherWater Alternatives Networken_ZA
dc.rights© 2020 Water Alternatives. licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.en_ZA
dc.subjectIntegrated water resources managementen_ZA
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten_ZA
dc.subjectWater Framework Directive (WFD)en_ZA
dc.subjectEU water initiative (EUWI)en_ZA
dc.subjectEuropean Union (EU)en_ZA
dc.titleThree faces of the European Union water initiative : promoting the water framework directive or sustainable development?en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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