Uitenboogaart; Kempen; Wiering; Rijswick

Dealing with complexity and policy discretion; a comparison of the implementation proces of the European Waterframeworks

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is one of today's most comprehensive European Directives and is considered to be of major importance for domestic water management, especially regarding the chemical and ecological conditions of water bodies all over Europe. This book results from a rather simple initial question: How is the Netherlands, compared to other countries, doing in implementing the Directive? Are they front runners or lagging behind? This simple question turned out to produce less simple answers.