In this study, we look at the role which water policy entrepreneurs play in promoting and stimulating climate adaptation measures in international river basins. In a Dutch-German case study in the Rhine delta, we explore the range of strategies that policy entrepreneurs employ in cross-border water management to effectively anchor and embed climate adaptation in the water policy debate.We focus on climate adaptation on the local and regional scale in the Deltarhine region where increased flooding and prolonged drought periods are expected under the current climate change scenarios with a considerable impact on flood protection, agricultural activities, drinking water and ecosystem development.We analyse the impact of policy entrepreneurs while coping with the challenging cross-border setting and dealing with structural differences in national systems such as the legal and institutional framework. It is shown that whilst the European water guidelines advocate a river basin approach across borders, the guidelines do not (yet) play a catalyst role regarding climate adaptation, and the presence and activities of policy entrepreneurs contribute in putting climate adaptation on the cross-border policy agenda.Finally, marked differences in the presence of entrepreneurs in Germany and the Netherlands are observed for which two important complementary explanations are offered relating to contextual elements of power asymmetry and dependency as well as different policy styles and organisational cultures in both countries.

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国际流域的政策企业家将气候适应问题纳入了跨境水政策议程。

在本研究中，我们着眼于水政策企业家在国际流域促进和刺激气候适应措施中所扮演的角色。在莱茵河三角洲的荷兰-德国案例研究中，我们探索了政策企业家在跨境水资源管理中采用的各种策略，以有效地将气候适应性纳入和纳入水资源政策辩论中。 Deltarhine地区的区域规模，在当前的气候变化情景下，预计洪水泛滥和干旱时间延长，这将对防洪，农业活动，饮用水和生态系统发展产生重大影响。我们分析政策企业家的影响，同时应对挑战性的跨境环境，并应对法律和制度框架等国家体系中的结构性差异。结果表明，尽管欧洲水指南倡导跨境流域方法，但该指南尚未（尚未）在气候适应方面起催化剂作用，政策企业家的存在和活动有助于将气候适应置于跨境最后，观察到德国和荷兰企业家存在明显差异，针对这两个国家提供了两个重要的补充解释，涉及权力不对称和依赖的背景因素以及两国不同的政策风格和组织文化。