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Water is one of the most important natural resources in the context of adaptation to global climate change (GWP 2007). The changing global climate is leading to significant effects on the availability and allocation of water in most river basins. Water collection, filtration and storage in wetlands will play an increasingly important role to secure drinking water and fish supply, availability of water for irrigation and wastewater management or even flood protection. Wetlands provide important services for local communities (e.g. food, drinking water, wild products and raw materials for industry) and play an important role in water purification, flow regulation, and spreading of waterborne diseases. At the same time many wetlands are vulnerable to climate change, e.g. to changes in water allocation or nutrient loading. Junk (2002) and Zsuffa et al. (2008) predict that the increased droughts, water consumption and waste water production will result in further degradation of wetland ecosystems worldwide.
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Not considered are organizational or individual capacities.
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A variety of authors have argued that the reality of the policy process is very different and much more irrational and incremental than the rational approach would suggest (Lindblom 1959; Cohen et al. 1972; Kingdon 1984; March and Olson 1984) or as Turner and Hulme (1997, p. 58) argue ‘any lingering idea that policy is some highly rational process in which expert technicians are firmly in control using finely tuned instruments to achieve easily predicted outcomes’ must ‘be banished’.
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Clouting, H., Douven, W., Ostrovskaya, E., Pataki, B., Schwartz, K. (2014). Framework for Analysing Institutional Capacity for Wetland Management: The Case of the Gemenc Floodplain. In: Albrecht, E., Schmidt, M., Mißler-Behr, M., Spyra, S. (eds) Implementing Adaptation Strategies by Legal, Economic and Planning Instruments on Climate Change. Environmental Protection in the European Union, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77614-7_9
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