The analysis contained in (Paper V) showed that the WFD erects few formal barriers to good planning practices. The criteria are then used to assess the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) – an extensive legal framework which will steer water planning in the EU Member States for several decades to come – and to assess the planning processes that follows on from WFD implementation in Sweden.
The derived criteria concern issues such as, how to integrate knowledge and values into the planning process and how to generate commitment, legitimacy or acceptance for the resulting plan, by democratic means. The criteria were derived using a multi-disciplinary approach, where the relevant literature on how to transform the concepts of ‘integration’ and ‘participation’ – both key principles for sustainable development in relation to planning – into an analytical framework of twelve criteria, was reviewed and synthesised.
The main methodological approach used, and the theoretical contribution made here, is the deriving and discussion of a set of deductive criteria for the development and assessment of planning processes for the sustainable use of water resources (Papers III and IV). Planning as a process is in focus, both in itself and in the organisational and legal contexts that affect how planning processes are performed. The overall aim of this thesis is therefore to contribute to the available knowledge on planning and management for the sustainable use of water resources. A significant part of the solution to this problem lies in the planning and decision-making domain. In other places, where the consequences are less severe, natural environments are seriously damaged. In some places, the problem leads to human suffering and death while also obstructing social and economic development. The basic problem that this work wishes to address concerns the unsustainable use of water resources in many places of the world. Practices for long-term human welfare and planetary survival. Number of voices that ask for sustainable development in not only rhetoric, but also On enviromental decision-making, and the thesis may thus contribute to the growing Implementation of these principles would challenge present mainstream views The polluter pays principle and the principle of public participation. Public management of risk are derived and suggested: the precautionary principle, In the light of a changing discourse of risk, and a new interpretation of theĬoncept of sustainable development, three new formulations of principles for improving Sweden and the European Union for hazardous chemicals and genetically modified The thesis illustrates this dilemma by describing and investigating risk policies in Policies for assessing and managing environmental risks. Often, scientific incertitude and diverging social values and norms challenge present Some positive signs on progressive and successful environmental policy, severe environmentalĬhange is still taking place worldwide as a result of human activities. This thesis is concerned with the problematic question of how to manage complexĮnvironmental risks in a way that promotes sustainable development.