Water management in transition? : investigating the underlying reasons of low level of public participation in water planning in Hungary
This thesis examines how the Water Framework Directive has been implemented in Hungary with a particular focus on public participation. Hungary with its heavily centralized water management is relatively new to deliberative approaches, so it is interesting to assess how the country is dealing with a...
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SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development
2018
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| author | Martin, Anna |
| author_browse | Martin, Anna |
| author_facet | Martin, Anna |
| author_sort | Martin, Anna |
| collection | Epsilon Archive for Student Projects |
| description | This thesis examines how the Water Framework Directive has been implemented in Hungary with a particular focus on public participation. Hungary with its heavily centralized water management is relatively new to deliberative approaches, so it is interesting to assess how the country is dealing with a piece of legislation, which requires decentralized steering during the making (planning, reviewing, updating) of the river basin management plans. The qualitative research was based on the semistructured interviews to identify and explore the underlying reasons of the low level of participative potential in the country. During the investigations, the key concept of deliberative democracy served as a theoretical framework.
The main finding of the paper is that the participative and communicative processes during the implementation of the Directive are reduced to an elite of participants, deforming deliberative ideals and that the broader public is not even motivated to take a more significant role. It is argued that the establishment of institutions which are based on more deliberative foundations would be crucial for a more democratic water planning, as currently the efficiency and effectivity of social participation is strongly dependent on and limited by the national characteristics. The findings of this paper can be of interest to both Hungarian and non-Hungarian audiences, as it reflects the current democratic changes, which are happening in the polarized population of the EU. |
| format | H2 |
| id | RepoSLU13148 |
| institution | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2018 |
| publishDateSort | 2018 |
| publisher | SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development |
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| spelling | RepoSLU131482020-05-20T10:53:44Z Water management in transition? : investigating the underlying reasons of low level of public participation in water planning in Hungary Martin, Anna public participation deliberative democracy water planning citizen dialogue This thesis examines how the Water Framework Directive has been implemented in Hungary with a particular focus on public participation. Hungary with its heavily centralized water management is relatively new to deliberative approaches, so it is interesting to assess how the country is dealing with a piece of legislation, which requires decentralized steering during the making (planning, reviewing, updating) of the river basin management plans. The qualitative research was based on the semistructured interviews to identify and explore the underlying reasons of the low level of participative potential in the country. During the investigations, the key concept of deliberative democracy served as a theoretical framework. The main finding of the paper is that the participative and communicative processes during the implementation of the Directive are reduced to an elite of participants, deforming deliberative ideals and that the broader public is not even motivated to take a more significant role. It is argued that the establishment of institutions which are based on more deliberative foundations would be crucial for a more democratic water planning, as currently the efficiency and effectivity of social participation is strongly dependent on and limited by the national characteristics. The findings of this paper can be of interest to both Hungarian and non-Hungarian audiences, as it reflects the current democratic changes, which are happening in the polarized population of the EU. SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development 2018 H2 eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/13148/ |
| spellingShingle | public participation deliberative democracy water planning citizen dialogue Martin, Anna Water management in transition? : investigating the underlying reasons of low level of public participation in water planning in Hungary |
| title | Water management in transition? : investigating the underlying reasons of low level of public participation in water planning in Hungary |
| title_full | Water management in transition? : investigating the underlying reasons of low level of public participation in water planning in Hungary |
| title_fullStr | Water management in transition? : investigating the underlying reasons of low level of public participation in water planning in Hungary |
| title_full_unstemmed | Water management in transition? : investigating the underlying reasons of low level of public participation in water planning in Hungary |
| title_short | Water management in transition? : investigating the underlying reasons of low level of public participation in water planning in Hungary |
| title_sort | water management in transition? : investigating the underlying reasons of low level of public participation in water planning in hungary |
| topic | public participation deliberative democracy water planning citizen dialogue |