Inclusive Stakeholder Participation in Watershed Management: The Danube River Protection Convention and Silicon Valley’s Watershed Management Initiative
Guest blog by: Michael Stanley-Jones , Enviromental Policy and Governance Fellow, United Nations Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) In the Science Talk, สปInclusive Stakeholder Participation in Watershed Management’, Michael Stanley-Jones , Environmental Policy and Governance Fellow UNU-INWEH, explored how to mobilize the participation of the civic stakeholders in the negotiation, adoption and implementation of legally binding policies affecting the management of two major watersheds: the Danube River Basin and the Santa Clara Basin Basin in California’s Silicon Valley region. Both cases illustrate how inclusion of environmental and other civic stakeholders led to success negotiation and implementation of the Danube Environmental Protection Convention (1994) and the regional watershed management and pollution prevention plans )1998-2002) aimed at protecting and enhacing the watershed of the Lower South San Francisco Bay. The Danube River stretches 2,780 ...