Towards a rights-based approach in EU international river basin governance? Lessons from the Scheldt and Ems Basins

Herman Kasper Gilissen, Cathy Suykens, Maarten Kleinhans, Marleen van Rijswick and Karianne van der Werf

Water International, 2019, vol. 44, issue 6-7, 701-718

Abstract: This article finds that the introduction of a rights-based approach in EU transboundary river basin management to remedy observed systemic difficulties and to better achieve legal water quality standards could be a next step in achieving integrated river basin management. However, its effectiveness largely depends on the willingness of member states to share river basin districts to subordinate their separate socio-economic interests to ecological needs, as well as to grant a clear mandate and partly transfer responsibilities and powers to a competent supranational authority.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2019.1649629

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