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    The politics of multi-scalar action in river basin management : Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) (2014)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  42, Seiten 38-47
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science
    Angaben zur Quelle: 42, Seiten 38-47
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: River basin management ; Water Framework Directive ; politics of scale ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Scholars of environmental governance are increasingly intrigued by issues of scale. Efforts to institutionalise river basin management represent a pertinent exemplar, as they aspire to strengthen hydrological vis-à-vis political-administrative scales of governance. The EU Wa-ter Framework Directive (WFD) is one of the most ambitious policy initiatives worldwide to reconfigure water management planning around the hydrological scale of river basins. Whilst it is widely assumed that the WFD is rescaling water governance in Europe, few em-pirical studies have been conducted to ascertain how far this is the case, what scalar strate-gies and practices are emerging and to what effect. The paper addresses these open issues with a study analysing the multi-scalar actions of water authorities, water management or-ganisations, local authorities and interest groups involved in implementing the WFD. It in-vestigates how stakeholders are acting scalar from the local to the European scale and back to further their interests in the course of WFD implementation, focussing on the Wupper sub-basin in Germany. Drawing for conceptual insight on the human geography debate on the politics of scale and processes of rescaling, we demonstrate how all relevant stakeholders are increasingly working across scales to advance their interests but in very different ways, with different degrees of deliberation and to different effect. A typology of multi-scalar action is developed to interpret this diversity. The paper draws conclusions on how multi-scalar action is altering not only power relations between the actors but also the scalar configurations themselves.
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    Note: First published as: Frank Hüesker and Timothy Moss: The politics of multi-scalar action in river basin management: Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Land Use Policy 2015, 42 (January), pp.38-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.07.003 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
    DOI: 10.18452/21578
    DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.07.003
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22565-3
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    Whose energy transition is it, anyway? : Organisation and ownership of the Energiewende in villages, cities and regions (2014)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  20,12, Seiten 1547-1563
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Taylor & Francis : Taylor & Francis, 2015
    Angaben zur Quelle: 20,12, Seiten 1547-1563
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Local energy transitions ; Berlin-Brandenburg ; Ownership ; Commons ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: As one of the most ambitious national energy transition initiatives worldwide, the German Energiewende is attracting a huge amount of attention globally in both policy and research circles. The paper explores the implementation of Germany’s energy transition through the lens of organization and ownership in urban and regional contexts. Following a summary of the principal institutional challenges of the Energiewende at local and regional levels the paper develops a novel way of conceptualizing the institutional to urban and regional energy transitions in terms of agency and power, ideas and discourse, and commons and ownership. This analytical heuristic is applied to a two-tier empirical study of the Berlin-Brandenburg region. The first tier involves a survey of the organizational landscape of energy infrastructures and services in cities, towns and villages in Brandenburg. The second tier comprises a case study of current, competing initiatives for (re-)gaining ownership of the power grid and utility in Berlin. The paper draws conclusions on the diverse and dynamic organizational responses to the Energiewende at the local level, what these tell us about urban and regional energy governance and how they are inspired by – or in opposition to – new forms of collective ownership resonant of recent debates on reclaiming the commons. It concludes with observations on how relational approaches to institutional research and the notion of the commons can guide and inspire future research on socio-technical transitions in general, and urban energy transitions in particular.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss, Sören Becker & Matthias Naumann (2015) Whose energy transition is it, anyway? Organisation and ownership of the Energiewende in villages, cities and regions, Local Environment, 20:12, 1547-1563, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2014.915799
    DOI: 10.18452/21582
    DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2014.915799
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22568-1
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    Spatiality of the Commons (2014)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  International Journal of the Commons 8,2014,2, Seiten 457-471
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: International Journal of the Commons
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Ubiquity Press
    Angaben zur Quelle: 8,2014,2, Seiten 457-471
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: commons ; human geography ; place-making ; politics of scale ; property rights ; reclaiming the commons ; spatial fit ; spatial planning ; spatiality ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Geografie und Reisen
    Abstract: This editorial sets the scene for the special feature by explaining the importance of geography to the commons and its governance, critically appraising the existing literature on this theme, highlighting important contributions from recent research and mapping out a future research agenda. It begins by reflecting on how little explicit attention has been paid to date to the spatial dimensions of the commons. The author critiques on the one hand the literature on the commons for conceiving of spatiality primarily as the local, physical context of commons use and regulation but also, on the other hand, the spatial science literature for generally neglecting the commons, both conceptually and empirically. The paper then pinpoints important exceptions in the fields of human geography and planning studies, assessing how these works contribute to a more thorough and robust understanding of the relationship between spatiality, the commons and their governance. The analysis of these select works making explicit reference to the commons is complemented with a reflection on how broader debates in the spatial sciences can enrich spatial research on the commons. The final section turns to the papers of the special feature, summarizing each of the papers in order and indicating how they each contribute to the themes developed in the editorial.
    DOI: 10.18452/21558
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22303-5
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    Your Resilience is My Vulnerability : ‘Rules in Use’ in a Local Water Conflict (2014)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Social Sciences 3,2014,1, Seiten 172-192
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Social Sciences
    Publ. der Quelle: Basel : MDPI
    Angaben zur Quelle: 3,2014,1, Seiten 172-192
    DDC: 551
    Keywords: resilience ; vulnerability ; rules in use ; water conflict ; water scarcity ; institutions ; Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ; Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: This paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders. It demonstrates how, in the absence of effective formal institutions, these constructions are getting translated into conflictual resilience strategies practiced by these stakeholders, creating situations in which “your resilience is my vulnerability”. The novel contribution of the paper to resilience research is threefold. Firstly, it illustrates how the vulnerability and resilience of a socio-ecological system—such as small catchment—are socially constructed; that is, how they are not given but rather the product of stakeholders’ perceptions of threats and suitable responses to them. Secondly, the paper emphasizes the role of institutions—both formal and informal—in framing these vulnerability constructions and resilience strategies. Particular attention is paid to the importance of informal ‘rules in use’ emerging in the wake of (formal) ‘institutional voids’ and how they work against collective solutions. Thirdly, by choosing a small-scale, commonplace dispute to study vulnerability and resilience, the paper seeks to redress the imbalance of resilience research (and policy) on dramatic disaster events by revealing the relevance of everyday vulnerabilities, which may be less eye-catching but are far more widespread.
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    DOI: 10.18452/21557
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22301-3
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    Spatial fit and water politics : Managing asymmetries in the Dongjiang River basin (2014)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  International journal of river basin management 12,2014,4, Seiten 329-339
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (11 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: International journal of river basin management
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 12,2014,4, Seiten 329-339
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: River basin management ; spatial fit ; Dongjiang River ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore how classic upstream-downstream conflicts of water resources management can be interpreted more broadly in terms of spatial misfits and disparities between the river basin, territorial jurisdictions, degrees of political influence and socio-economic conditions. It applies the analytical concept of spatial fit in order to explore issues of governance in managing water in the Dongjiang River basin, selected by virtue of the huge political and economic asymmetries existing between the upstream Jiangxi Province and the downstream Pearl River delta region. Using the concept of spatial fit, the paper explores the complex environmental, socio-economic and political geographies which frame the interdependencies of water use and management within the river basin. It analyses attempts by stakeholders at different levels and locations in the basin to advance their own water-related interests and the initiatives some are developing to share benefits and costs more equitably across the basin.
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    Note: First published as: Frederick Lee & Timothy Moss (2014) Spatial fit and water politics: managing asymmetries in the Dongjiang River basin, International Journal of River Basin Management, 12:4, 329-339, DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2014.917420
    DOI: 10.18452/21579
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22566-9
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    Managing Water Infrastructures in the Berlin-Brandenburg Region between Climate Change, Economic Restructuring and Commercialisation (2011)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  142,1–2, Seiten 187-208
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (22 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin
    Angaben zur Quelle: 142,1–2, Seiten 187-208
    DDC: 551
    Keywords: water ; infrastructure ; Berlin ; Brandenburg ; climate change ; global change ; Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ; Das Sozialverhalten beeinflussende Faktoren
    Abstract: Global change is posing a major challenge to existing forms of natural resource use, socio-economic development and institutional regulation. Although trends such as climate change, socio-economic transformation and institutional change are global in their scope, they have very specific regional outcomes. Regionally distinct coping strategies are required which take into account both the diversity of regional impacts of global change and the local contexts of appropriate responses. This paper explores the impacts of global change on the management of water infrastructure systems in the Berlin-Brandenburg region in terms of three concurrent and overlapping challenges: climate change, socio-economic change and institutional change. It subsequently examines how regional actors in the water sector are addressing these three dimensions of global change.
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    DOI: 10.18452/21556
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22300-7
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    Multilevel Water Governance and Problems of Scale : Setting the Stage for a Broader Debate (2010)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  46,1, Seiten 1-6
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: New York : Springer
    Angaben zur Quelle: 46,1, Seiten 1-6
    DDC: 333.7
    Keywords: water management ; multilevel governance ; problems of scale ; rescaling ; Natürliche Resourcen, Energie und Umwelt ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Environmental governance and management are facing a multiplicity of challenges related to spatial scales and multiple levels of governance. Water management is a field particularly sensitive to issues of scale because the hydrological system with its different scalar levels from small catchments to large river basins plays such a prominent role. It thus exemplifies fundamental issues and dilemmas of scale in modern environmental management and governance. In this introductory article to an Environmental Management special feature on “Multilevel Water Governance: Coping with Problems of Scale,” we delineate our understanding of problems of scale and the dimensions of scalar politics that are central to water resource management. We provide an overview of the contributions to this special feature, concluding with a discussion of how scalar research can usefully challenge conventional wisdom on water resource management. We hope that this discussion of water governance stimulates a broader debate and inquiry relating to the scalar dimensions of environmental governance and management in general.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss & Jens Newig (2010) Multilevel Water Governance and Problems of Scale: Setting the Stage for a Broader Debate, Environmental Management, 46:1, 1-6, DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9531-1
    DOI: 10.18452/21890
    DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9531-1
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22621-2
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