Assessment framework of actor strategies in international river basin management, the case of Deltarhine
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Assessment framework of actor strategies in international river basin management, the case of Deltarhine Tobias Renner1 · Sander Meijerink2 · Pieter van der Zaag3,4 · Toine Smits5,6 Accepted: 30 September 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract The combined effects of socio-economic growth as well as climate change exert increasing pressure on international river basins and require dedicated cooperative efforts to jointly manage international rivers. Cooperative strategies drawn from scientific literature, empirical research and practitioner’s handbooks are explored and clustered into six key dimensions of goals, instruments, structures, actors, leadership and resources to provide an assessment tool of actor strategies for both scientists and practitioners. The exploratory framework is applied to Dutch–German cooperation in the delta of the Rhine catchment, testing its conceptual validity and applicability in international river basin management as well as providing policy recommendations for the study area. The assessment framework can serve as an instrument to inventory, map and evaluate the importance of specific actor strategies and to facilitate dialogue and cross-border cooperation between riparian countries. Alternatively, the framework can be put to use, for example by downstream countries, to assess and coordinate their range of strategies on the national, regional and local level in order to engage and influence their counterparts. Keywords Transboundary water regimes · Cross-border cooperation · Network management strategies · Assessment framework · International river basin management · Rhine
1 Introduction International rivers constitute an important natural resource on our planet, and there has been an intensifying discussion in the past decades in the scientific and political arena how to further cooperation over these resources in the future. Background for this debate is the expectation that effects of population growth, socio-economic development and climate change (Hinkel and Menniken 2007; Delli Priscoli and Wolf 2009; Timmerman et al. 2011; Stefano et al. 2010; UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) and Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s1078 4-020-09512-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Tobias Renner [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
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INBO (International Network of River Basin Organisations) 2015) will exert increasing pressure on international river basins, introduce water stress and require dedicated cooperative efforts by riparian countries to equitably share water resources and economic benefits. International organisations and financing institutions such as the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), Global Water Partnership (GWP) and the World Bank therefore continue to initiate initiatives for transboundary knowledge development and utilisation, capacity building of
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