and its
results
Policy makers and scientists may
agree that its great, but at the
operational management level
there are problems
Sources: personal experience, Borowski and Hare (2007), Hare (2011), others
1. Competent authorities’reluctance
−Lack of knowledge about Participatory Management
−Participation = information provision
−Participation undertaken by PR department
−Fear of high costs
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class of participatory method
– … participatory goal to be achieved
– ... stage of adaptive management cycle
– ... types and number of stakeholder to be involved
– … resources and skills of competent authority
• Methods are combined in processes
according to a logical framework
Criteria for selecting methods
• Information provision
– stakeholders are informed about management
plans
• Consultation
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process. Although the time
frame given in the task refers to 20 years in the foreseeable future, we--- as a compulsory part of
the competent authority (leading agency), who is entitled the legal mandate to facilitate
implementation of stakeholder involvement and ultimate performance of the outcome of the
adaptation plan--- will not confine ourselves to the predefined time frame due
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management competencies. The
existing legal obligations and administrative
structures in North Rhine-Westphalia assign
competencies for the implementation of the WFD
to the Ministry of Environment (MUNLV).
MUNLV, in turn, has delegated some of its tasks to
the Bezirksregierungen, which are the competent
authorities at the county level that coordinate the
implementation of the WFD at the sub-basin
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are not seen as a priority for the organization. For example,
some water management organizations are seen by themselves and others as the competent authorities, and their
managers may be legally responsible for their management decisions. There is therefore an understandable reluc-
tance to change what apparently works and to share discussion and decision-making with non-legally responsible
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either in exploiting
or protecting the resource. Stakeholders include the fol-
lowing categories: (1) competent water resource authority
(typically the water manager, cf. above); (2) interest
groups; and (3) general public.
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The modelling process may, according to the HarmoniQuA
project (Refsgaard et al., 2005a; Scholten et al., 2007, http
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