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.

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国际流域管理行动者战略评估框架，以Deltarhine为例

社会经济增长和气候变化的共同影响对国际河流流域施加越来越大的压力，需要专门的合作努力共同管理国际河流。从科学文献、实证研究和从业者手册中提取的合作战略被探索并分为目标、工具、结构、行动者、领导力和资源的六个关键维度，为科学家和从业者提供行动者战略的评估工具。该探索性框架应用于莱茵流域三角洲的荷德合作，测试其在国际流域管理中的概念有效性和适用性，并为研究区域提供政策建议。评估框架可以作为清点工具，绘制和评估特定行动者战略的重要性，并促进沿岸国家之间的对话和跨境合作。或者，例如下游国家可以使用该框架来评估和协调其在国家、区域和地方层面上的一系列战略，以吸引和影响其对应方。