ASSESSMENT OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION IN ROMANIA: CASE STUDY OF BEGA CATCHMENT

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 945-952
Author(s):  
Codruta-Adelina Pepa
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive

scholarly journals Incorporating Ecosystem Services in the Assessment of Water Framework Directive Programmes of Measures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Souliotis ◽  
Nikolaos Voulvoulis
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Water Status ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ecological Condition ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Ecological Objectives ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe EU Water Framework Directive requires the development of management responses aimed towards improving water quality as a result of improving ecosystem health (system state). Ecosystems have potential to supply a range of services that are of fundamental importance to human well-being, health, livelihoods and survival, and their capacity to supply these services depends on the ecosystem condition (its structure and processes). According to the WFD, Programmes of Measures should be developed to improve overall water status by reducing anthropogenic catchment pressures to levels compatible with the achievement of the ecological objectives of the directive, and when designed and implemented properly should improve the ecological condition of aquatic ecosystems that the delivery of ecosystem services depends on. Monitoring and evaluation of implemented measures are crucial for assessing their effectiveness and creating the agenda for consecutive planning cycles. Considering the challenges of achieving water status improvements, and the difficulties of communicating these to the wider public, we develop a framework for the evaluation of measures cost-effectiveness that considers ecosystem services as the benefits from the reduction of pressures on water bodies. We demonstrate its application through a case study and discuss its potential to facilitate the economic analysis required by the directive, and that most European water authorities had problems with. Findings demonstrate the potential of the methodology to effectively incorporate ecosystem services in the assessment of costs and benefits of proposed actions, as well as its potential to engage stakeholders.

scholarly journals Governance of Water Resources in the Phase of Change: A Case Study of the Implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in Sweden

AMBIO ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Hammer ◽  
Berit Balfors ◽  
Ulla Mörtberg ◽  
Mona Petersson ◽  
Andrew Quin
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Eu Water Framework Directive ◽  
The Eu

scholarly journals Chemical Quality Status of Rivers for the Water Framework Directive: A Case Study of Toxic Metals in North West England

Water ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 649-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Rowland ◽  
Colin Neal ◽  
Darren Sleep ◽  
Colin Vincent ◽  
Paul Scholefield
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Toxic Metals ◽  
Chemical Quality ◽  
North West ◽  
Quality Status

scholarly journals Priorities and Preferences in Water Quality Management - a Case Study of the Alsterån River Basin

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-173
Author(s):  
Kristina Ek ◽  
Lars Persson
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Status ◽  
Water Quality Management ◽  
Quality Attributes ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
The European Union

AbstractSweden is a decentralised country where local managers, who are key actors in water management, often deal with relatively difficult prioritisations, tradeoffs and conflicting goals. Many of these challenges relate to the effective implementation of the European Union Water Framework Directive. As an input to these challenges, the present paper elicits and analyses local and semi-local citizens’ preferences for water quality attributes related to the European Water Framework directive in a river basin located in southeast of Sweden. Based on a choice experiment tailored to the case study area, the paper analyses preferences for selected attributes based on real criteria for ecological water status in the implementation of the directive. The target population lives in the municipalities through which the river passes, or in municipalities neighbouring those. Despite this spatial proximity to the river, the analysis reveals limited knowledge and interest in matters related to the environmental quality of the river. There is no evidence that preferences differ between respondents with regard to experience or knowledge about the water basin, nor with regard to recreational habits in the area. These results offer input to local water management by providing information about preferences for explicit water quality attributes.

Combining active farmer involvement with detailed farm data in Denmark: a promising method for achieving water framework directive targets?

2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 2625-2633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart A. L. Wright ◽  
Brian H. Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
River Basin Management Plans ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Selection Of

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) encourages active involvement during its implementation, although no specific participatory methods are suggested, whilst implementing the target-oriented Directive will require detailed agri-environmental data at catchment and farm level. The paper is a case study of the Danish AGWAplan project, which actively involved farmers in the selection of measures to reduce diffuse nutrient pollution at farm and catchment level, thereby providing an example of how active involvement might be operationalised. Active involvement has been identified as being of central importance to the success of the WFD. The project also entailed the accumulation of extensive agri-environmental data. The aim of the paper is to evaluate AGWAplan to establish the extent to which its expected objectives have been achieved and how, and to determine whether the project approach might facilitate WFD goals if implemented in forthcoming river basin management plans (RBMPs). AGWAplan resulted in advantageous outcomes, including win–win solutions to reduce nutrient leaching and greater acceptance of policy, although the original reduction targets where not fully reached. The paper concludes that actively involving farmers in a similar manner in RBMPs may make an important contribution to the implementation of the WFD, although caveats regarding its potential for transfer to other areas are identified.

The Water Framework Directive: Can more information be extracted from groundwater data? A case study of Seewinkel, Burgenland, eastern Austria

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 779-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
István Gábor Hatvani ◽  
Norbert Magyar ◽  
Matthias Zessner ◽  
József Kovács ◽  
Alfred Paul Blaschke
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Eastern Austria

Application of biomarkers for improving risk assessments of chemicals under the Water Framework Directive: A case study

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 1111-1118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine A. Hagger ◽  
Malcolm B. Jones ◽  
David Lowe ◽  
D.R. Paul Leonard ◽  
Richard Owen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Risk Assessments
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