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River basin management has become an important steering concept in contemporary water management and governance. This chapter asks to what extent the shifting territorial focus in water management from the administrative scales of states, regions and municipalities to the multi-level scale of entire river basins or sub-basins, exerts pressure on the existing institutional arrangements. Using the concepts of policy arrangements and multiple venues, it will be shown to what extent the discourse of river basin management, and the institutionalisation of this discourse on the European level, have an impact on Dutch water management. The results indicate that changes are neither paradigmatic nor revolutionary, but fit in the more evolutionary shifts towards more, integrated, ecologically inspired water management, which has been going on for a few decades now.
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Meijerink, S., Wiering, M. (2009). River Basin Management in Europe: The ‘Up- and Downloading’ of a New Policy Discourse. In: Arts, B., Lagendijk, A., Houtum, H. (eds) The Disoriented State: Shifts in Governmentality, Territoriality and Governance. Environment & Policy, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9480-4_9
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