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Adapting participatory processes in temporary rivers management
Environmental Science & Policy ( IF 6 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-18 , DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.03.005
Maria Soria , Núria Bonada , Alba Ballester , Iraima Verkaik , Dídac Jordà-Capdevila , Carolina Solà , Antoni Munné , Sara-María Jiménez-Argudo , Pau Fortuño , Francesc Gallart , Dolors Vinyoles , Pilar Llorens , Jérôme Latron , Teodoro Estrela , Narcís Prat , Núria Cid

The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) mandates to incorporate the participation of stakeholders and the general public in the development and updating of the river basin management plans. So far, the WFD implementation has been mainly focused on perennial rivers without considering temporary rivers properly, neither in biomonitoring programs nor participatory processes. This paper aims at adapting participatory processes in river basin management to enhance the inclusion of ecosystems with poor or no social recognition such as temporary rivers. To do so, we examined previous experiences of participatory processes conducted in the WFD and adapted them to propose and implement an approach for promoting stakeholders’ engagement in temporary rivers. The approach is based on a collaborative leadership, includes multiple participatory engagement mechanisms, uses future global change scenarios and the concept of ecosystem services at different stages of the process, and aims at involving stakeholders not only in the proposal of measures stage but in the diagnosis of the ecological status. It also includes an evaluation of participants’ satisfaction on the process. We tested our approach in temporary rivers from the Mediterranean region. We found that the combination of environmental education and citizen science activities, together with the inclusion of the ecosystem services concept, was the most useful way to raise awareness on the biodiversity and ecological value of temporary rivers and to promote stakeholders’ engagement. Workshops conducted during the diagnosis stage played an important role in both including stakeholders’ suggestions and increasing their knowledge on temporary rivers. Further, envisaging climate-related future scenarios allowed participants to incorporate measures that could tackle new and emerging pressures on these ecosystems. As future environmental changes will increase the proportion of rivers with temporary flow regimes, our approach can contribute to adapt current participatory processes to future needs.



中文翻译:

适应临时河流管理中的参与过程

欧洲水框架指令(WFD)的任务是将利益相关者和公众的参与纳入流域管理计划的制定和更新中。到目前为止,WFD的实施主要集中在多年生河流上,而没有在生物监测计划或参与性过程中适当考虑临时河流。本文旨在适应流域管理中的参与过程,以增强对社会性认识差或没有社会认识的生态系统(如临时河流)的包容性。为此,我们研究了WFD中参与过程的先前经验,并对其进行了修改,以提出并实施一种方法,以促进利益相关者参与临时河流。该方法基于协作领导,包括多种参与性参与机制,在过程的不同阶段使用未来的全球变化场景和生态系统服务的概念,并旨在使利益相关者不仅参与措施建议阶段,而且参与生态状况的诊断。它还包括对参与者对该过程的满意度的评估。我们在地中海地区的临时河流中测试了我们的方法。我们发现,结合环境教育和公民科学活动以及纳入生态系统服务概念,是提高对临时河流的生物多样性和生态价值的认识并促进利益相关者参与的最有用方法。在诊断阶段进行的研讨会在包括利益相关者的建议以及增加他们对临时河流的知识方面都起着重要作用。此外,设想与气候有关的未来情景将使参与者采取措施,以应对这些生态系统面临的新的和正在出现的压力。由于未来的环境变化将增加采用临时流量制度的河流比例,因此我们的方法可有助于使当前的参与性流程适应未来的需求。

更新日期:2021-03-19
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