Abteilung Umweltsozialwissenschaften

CrossWater – Regulierung grenzüberschreitender Mikroverunreinigung in Europa: Die Definition angemessener Managementmassstäbe

 

Eine grosse Herausforderung für das Umweltmanagement besteht darin, den räumlichen Rahmen von Regulierungen den spezifischen Umweltproblemen anzupassen. Von einer naturwissenschaftlichen Perspektive kann der geeignete Massstab von Managementeinheiten durch die Grenzen, über welche hinaus physische, chemische und biologische Prozesse keinen Effekt mehr auf das Umweltproblem haben, definiert werden. Tatsächliche politische Managementeinheiten stimmen allerdings nur selten mit diesen Idealzuständen überein. Dies gilt insbesondere für grenzüberschreitende Wasserverunreinigung im Allgemeinen, und Regulierung von Mikroverunreinigung im Besonderen, wo unterschiedliche Rechtsprechungen dazu tendieren, verschiedene politische Lösungen hervorzubringen und divergierende Instrumente eingesetzt werden, um das exakt gleiche Problem innerhalb des gleichen hydrologischen Einzugsgebietes anzugehen. In diesem Forschungsprojekt wenden wir einen interdisziplinären Ansatz an, in dem wir eine „Mass Flux“-Analyse mit Politikwissenschaft und Wirtschaftsgeographie kombinieren und uns folgende Frage stellen: Wie kann die potenzielle Diskrepanz zwischen dem physischen Umfang der Verschmutzung  und den entsprechenden politischen Handlungsbereichen und der Regulierung von Mikroverunreinigung visualisiert und erfasst werden, um eine effektive und effiziente Regulierung von Mikroverunreinigung auszugestalten?

Verwandtes Dissertations-Projekt von Florence Metz: How to explain instrument selection in complex policy processes

Projektteam

Prof. Dr. Karin Ingold Gruppenleiterin, Gruppe: PEGO Tel. +41 58 765 5676 E-Mail senden
Dr. Christian Stamm Stellvertretender Direktor Tel. +41 58 765 5565 E-Mail senden
Ruth Scheidegger Tel. +41 58 765 5502 E-Mail senden

Externe Teammitglieder

Christophe Sohn, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research

Laura Herzog, IPW Bern and Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research

Marc Schneider, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research

Antoine Paccoud, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research

 

Publikationen

Hering, J. G.; Ingold, K. M. (2012) Water resources management: what should be integrated?, Science, 336(6086), 1234-1235, doi:10.1126/science.1218230, Institutional Repository

Water management across borders, scales and sectors: recent developments and future challenges in water policy analysis

Integrated water resource management (IWRM) is widely accepted and has been implemented though international, national and regional water management guidelines. Nonetheless, concrete implementation of IWRM gives rise to new questions for policy analysis. Scholars interested in water regulation, the design of effective and efficient policy instruments, and structures of participative and multi-level policy processes face challenges regarding research design, concepts and empirical approaches. This special issue integrates research about regional, national and transboundary policy perspectives on water management in seven countries, four continents and two transnational water bodies. From the six articles presented in this special issue, we learn more about how to define integration, to think about borders and scales and to theoretically and empirically study collaborative management in water policy analysis.
Ingold, K.; Fischer, M.; de Boer, C.; Mollinga, P. P. (2016) Water management across borders, scales and sectors: recent developments and future challenges in water policy analysis, Environmental Policy and Governance, 26(4), 223-228, doi:10.1002/eet.1713, Institutional Repository

Sustainable wastewater management: is it possible to regulate micropollution in the future by learning from the Past? A policy analysis

This paper applies a policy analysis approach to the question of how to effectively regulate micropollution in a sustainable manner. Micropollution is a complex policy problem characterized by a huge number and diversity of chemical substances, as well as various entry paths into the aquatic environment. It challenges traditional water quality management by calling for new technologies in wastewater treatment and behavioral changes in industry, agriculture and civil society. In light of such challenges, the question arises as to how to regulate such a complex phenomenon to ensure water quality is maintained in the future? What can we learn from past experiences in water quality regulation? To answer these questions, policy analysis strongly focuses on the design and choice of policy instruments and the mix of such measures. In this paper, we review instruments commonly used in past water quality regulation. We evaluate their ability to respond to the characteristics of a more recent water quality problem, i.e., micropollution, in a sustainable way. This way, we develop a new framework that integrates both the problem dimension (i.e., causes and effects of a problem) as well as the sustainability dimension (e.g., long-term, cross-sectoral and multi-level) to assess which policy instruments are best suited to regulate micropollution. We thus conclude that sustainability criteria help to identify an appropriate instrument mix of end-of-pipe and source-directed measures to reduce aquatic micropollution.
Metz, F.; Ingold, K. (2014) Sustainable wastewater management: is it possible to regulate micropollution in the future by learning from the Past? A policy analysis, Sustainability, 6(4), 1992-2012, doi:10.3390/su6041992, Institutional Repository