Accelerating Water Smartness in Coastal Europe

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Preliminary report on social acceptance and behaviours towards water-smart solutions (Deliverable 5.4, B-WaterSmart project)

Publication . Gomes, Carla; Schmidt, Luísa

This report of Work Package 5 – Society, Governance, Policy corresponds to “D5.4 - Preliminary report on social acceptance and behaviours towards water-smart solutions (M36). It is one of the outputs from Task 5.3 - Assessment of stakeholders’ attitudes towards water-smart solutions, which aims to analyse perceptions, practices, and attitudes throughout the Project. It aims at a preliminary analysis of results from the CoP meetings and stakeholder interviews regarding issues of acceptance of water-smart solutions by policymakers, stakeholders, end-users, and the public. The report applied the social acceptance analytical model, developed in the project’s Milestone 7 document (July 2021). Among other key concepts, it considers risk perceptions, justice and fairness notions, and trust between stakeholders, in authorities and companies. D5.4 is a preliminary report, of which there will be a final version in M48 of the project.

2023Report

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Drivers and barriers: proposal a new governance model (Deliverable 5.5, B-WaterSmart project)

Publication . Schmidt, Luísa; Gomes, Carla; Martin, Jacobo; Quina, Ainhoa; Santos, Eric; Casals, Ignacio; Damman, Sigrid; Lund, Henrik; Glotzbach, Raul; van Dam, Arvid; Paepe, Simon de; Boeckaert, Charlotte; Ribeiro, Rita; Rosa, Maria João; Schwesig, David; Hein, Andreas; Oberdorffer, Julia; Ragazzo, Patrizia; Chiucchini, Nicoletta; Ugarelli, Rita

The present report corresponds to Deliverable 5.5 of B-WaterSmart – Drivers and barriers: proposal for a new governance model”. It Alicante (Spain), Bodø (Norway), East Frisia (Germany), Flanders (Belgium), Lisbon (Portugal), and Venice (Italy), according to the 12 OECD Principles for Water Governance (2015). It includes six dedicated chapters where we analyse what improvements in the current water governance models will drive more effective implementation of water-smart solutions across the fields of water reuse, sludge reuse, and stormwater management. The report includes This deliverable follows up on D5.3 – “Drivers and Barriers for Water-Smart Solutions across 6 European Cases: Policy and Governance”, submitted in M18 (February 2022) and concludes Task 5.2 on Drivers and Barriers for the Implementation of B-WaterSmart Solutions (M36). It will inform further work of WP5 – Society, Governance and Policy, namely Task 5.4 – Guidelines and recommendations for policy & regulation for water-smart systems.

2023Report

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