10 The Resilience of Transboundary Water Governance
Within the European Union: A Legal and Institutional
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
10.1 Water Quantity Management and Water Allocation . . . . . . . . . . 119
10.1.1 The Role of Water Quantity Management and Water
Allocation in the Context of Hydropolitical
Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
10.1.2 Water Allocation Mechanisms in International Water
Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
10.1.3 Water Allocation in the European Union . . . . . . . . . . . 123
10.1.4 Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
10.2 Water Quality Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
10.2.1 The Correlation Between Water Quality Management
and Hydro-political Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
10.2.2 Water Quality Protection in International
Water Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
10.2.3 Water Quality Protection in the European Union . . . . . 135
10.2.4 Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
10.3 Cooperation Over Planned Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
10.3.1 Unilateral Interventions as a Source of Water
Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
10.3.2 Cooperation Over Planned Measures in International
Water Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
10.3.3 Cooperation Over Planned Measures in the European
Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
10.3.4 Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
10.4 Managing Hydrological Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
10.4.1 The Impact of Variability Management
on Hydropolitical Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
10.4.2 Variability Management in International Water Law . . . 148
10.4.3 Variability Management in the European Union . . . . . . 149
10.4.4 Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
10.5 Dispute Settlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
10.5.1 Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and Hydropolitical
Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
10.5.2 Mechanisms of Transboundary Water Dispute
Settlement in International Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
10.5.3 Dispute Settlement in the European Union . . . . . . . . . . 158
10.5.4 Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
11 Adaptive Capacity of EU Transboundary Water Governance:
The Dynamic Dimension of Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
11.1 The Role of Adaptive Capacity in Hydropolitical Resilience . . . 169
11.2 Measuring Adaptive Capacity: The Indicators Used . . . . . . . . . 170
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