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Good Status in the Changing Climate?—Climate Proofing Law on Water Management in the EU

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  • Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen

    (Department of Law, University of Eastern Finland, 80100 Joensuu, Finland)

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Climate change impacts constitute a major risk to the attainment of water policy objectives. This article analyses the resilience of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the light of the challenges that climate change brings to achieving the Directive’s objectives, no-deterioration and good status of surface waters and groundwater. The WFD includes mechanisms to adapt the water management objectives to climate change impacts, including redefining good status and application of exemptions. However, more harmonised efforts at the EU level would be needed to ensure an equal level of ambition and continuity in the water management objectives capacity to steer towards sustainable regime shifts.

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  • Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen, 2021. "Good Status in the Changing Climate?—Climate Proofing Law on Water Management in the EU," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-18, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:2:p:517-:d:476462
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