Introduced in 2000 to reform and rationalise water policy and management across the
European Union (EU) Member States (MS), the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the EU's …

Abstract The Water Framework Directive (WFD) 2000/60/EC was issued to combine, renew
and clarify the variety of legislations and responsibilities to a common implementation …

The purpose of this study was to explore the predominant determinants of shower end use
consumption and to find an overarching research design for building a residential water end …

The purpose of this comprehensive study was to explore the principal determinants of six
residential indoor water end-use consumption categories at the household scale (ie namely …

Practitioners often expect service delivery by municipally owned corporations (MOCs) to
differ substantially from delivery by municipal bureaucracy. However, research into the …

Nutrient pollution of freshwaters from agriculture is a key barrier to achieving the water
quality goals of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). Governance research …

As a result of the increasing global awareness about the importance of water, many
developed and developing countries have reviewed their water resources management …

This article proposes a new theoretical explanation to the question of environmental
governance failures, combining micro and macro explanations in the long run. We put …

Draining peat soils leads to oxidation of the peat and soil subsidence. In Germany, drained
peatlands account for only 7% of the agricultural land but are responsible for 37% of the …

The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) is one of the most ambitious legislative
instruments in the field of water policy to be introduced on an international basis for many …