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The WFD Dreams: between ecology and economics

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The enactment of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the European Union triggers intense activity among Member States and raises some criticisms. The good status of waters may include an ecological dream that is difficult to achieve. Moreover, criteria for derogations require strong economic arguments. This challenge raises the debate whether the WFD is part of an incremental process, embedded in prior European water law, with feasible goals, or whether it is a dramatic change of policy towards an ecological dream which emerged during late negotiations, therefore hardly achievable. I will state that although the high ecological ambition of the WFD is unprecedented within the EU's water law, it has several precedents in other arenas, notably long enforced in the United States of America. I will argue that the major challenge of the directive is the combination of the ecological dream with an economic ideal, which has no equivalent in the US.
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hal-00749874 , version 1 (08-11-2012)

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Gabrielle Bouleau. The WFD Dreams: between ecology and economics. Water and Environment Journal, 2008, 22 (4), pp.235 - 240. ⟨10.1111/j.1747-6593.2008.00122.x⟩. ⟨hal-00749874⟩
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