The potential limitations on its basin decision-making processes of granting self-defence rights to Father Rhine |
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Authors: | Bettina Wilk Dries L. T. Hegger Rakhyun E. Kim Peter P. J. Driessen |
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Affiliation: | Environmental Governance, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, the Netherlands |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTRecent grants of legal rights to rivers would seem to infuse traditional anthropocentric river governance with greater eco-centrism. Through a thought experiment, we scrutinize this proposition for the Rhine basin. We consider the governance implications of granting (procedural/material) rights to the river and elaborate on their implications for the three highly institutionalized regimes of the Rhine River of water quality, flooding and transport. Since we find that a shift to more eco-centrism has already occurred and since the right granted to the river would not be absolute, we deem radical transformations unlikely. |
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Keywords: | Rights of the river eco-centrism decision-making regime Rhine |
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