ABSTRACT

There is a gap between the increasing social use of urban rivers and limited citizen participation in river management under the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). A pilot participatory process aimed at promoting the active involvement of the general public in the management of an urban stream in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region was designed and tested. The participatory process was supported by web-based Public Participation Geographic Information Systems and face-to-face workshops. The opinions of the general public were collected and citizen decision-making and self-organisation were promoted. Assessment of the pilot results provided key learning points supporting the creation of citizen-based river groups: (1) setting participation in the framework of a socio-ecological understanding of the river; (2) involving local volunteers in the leadership and dissemination of participatory processes; (3) supporting participants’ learning and networking; and (4) connecting municipal-scale and basin-scale environmental interests and institutions through intermediate citizen platforms at sub-basin scale. These learning points offer a baseline for building a theory on the design of bottom-up participatory processes aimed at empowering riparian communities. Citizen-based river group formation policies may support the transition towards more multi-level European river governance.

抽象的

根据欧盟水框架指令（WFD），城市河流对社会的使用日益增加与公民对河流管理的参与有限之间存在差距。设计并测试了一个试点性的参与过程，旨在促进公众积极参与巴塞罗那大都会区的城市溪流管理。参与过程得到了基于网络的公众参与地理信息系统和面对面研讨会的支持。收集了公众的意见，并促进了公民的决策和自我组织。对试验结果的评估提供了支持建立以公民为基础的河流群的关键学习点：（1）设定对河流的社会生态理解框架的参与；（2）让当地志愿者参与领导和传播参与过程；（3）支持参与者的学习和联网；（4）通过次流域规模的中间公民平台，将市政规模和流域规模的环境利益和机构联系起来。这些学习要点为建立自下而上的参与过程设计理论提供了基线，这些过程旨在增强河岸社区的权能。基于公民的河流群形成政策可能会支持向更多层次的欧洲河流治理过渡。这些学习要点为建立自下而上的参与过程设计理论提供了基线，这些过程旨在增强河岸社区的权能。基于公民的河流群形成政策可能会支持向更多层次的欧洲河流治理过渡。这些学习要点为建立自下而上的参与过程设计理论提供了基线，这些过程旨在增强河岸社区的权能。基于公民的河流群形成政策可能会支持向更多层次的欧洲河流治理过渡。