Print Email Facebook Twitter An Approach to Support Learning from International Experience with Water Policy Title An Approach to Support Learning from International Experience with Water Policy Author Hermans, L.M. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Multi Actor Systems Date 2010-09-18 Abstract International experiences with water policy and governance arrangements are shared through various international meetings and reports. The underlying assumption is that these experiences provide useful information to policy makers who are looking for ways to improve water resources management in their home country or region. However, little has been written about analytical support for these potentially interested policy makers. They have to reach informed decisions about whether or not to initiate a process of policy transfer, about which foreign experiences to consider and about what parts of those experiences to copy, adapt, or reject. Providing such analytical support is complicated by the involvement of multiple actors in water resources management, who do not necessarily agree on these decisions. This paper outlines an approach to offer analytical support to these multiple actors in the initial phase of a policy transfer process. The approach is applied to the case of the Büyük Menderes river basin in Turkey, where local policy makers were engaged in a policy transfer process related to the EU Water Framework Directive. It is concluded that the outlined approach can be used to inform local policy makers, as it yielded new and valid information in the case. In the absence of overriding political concerns, such information would lead to different decisions in various phases of policy transfer, when compared to a process that lacks this analytical support. Subject policy transferwater policydynamic actor network analysisTurkeylesson-drawingEU Water Framework Directive To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d735bd32-0477-40b5-813a-5aae1caa40df DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-010-9705-x Publisher Springer Verlag ISSN 1573-1650 Source Water Resources Management, 25 (1), 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2010 The Author(s). This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Files PDF hermans2010.pdf 469.59 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d735bd32-0477-40b5-813a-5aae1caa40df/datastream/OBJ/view