3 pillars and 1 beam: Quality of river basin governance processes

Ângela Guimarães Pereira and Serafin Corral ()

Ecological Economics, 2009, vol. 68, issue 4, 940-954

Abstract: This paper suggests a framework that may enhance quality assurance of evaluation of river basin planning and governance processes based on 3 pillars and 1 beam: inclusive governance, transparent assessment, socially robust knowledge and extended peer review. It was developed based on past evaluation experiences from 5 cases of European river basin governance processes, entailing analysis of emergent patterns and linkages among the 4 vertices of the ADVISOR tetrahedron (context, information, assessment and participation), looking into justifications of past practice according to 4 types of context: institutional, societal, knowledge and methodological. The paper also hints on quality requirements that could be recommended for future practice of river basin governance evaluation activities.

Keywords: Quality; assurance; Socially; robust; knowledge; Extended; peer; review; Inclusive; governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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