11 Cross-cutting Perspective Freshwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Carina Furusho, Rodrigo Vidaurre, Isabelle La Jeunesse
and Maria-Helena Ramos
11.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
11.2 Drinking Water Scarcity Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
11.2.1 Relashionship between Water Quality
and Water Quantity for Freshwater Uses . . . . . . . . . . 218
11.2.2 The Diversity of Water Consumption Monitoring
Situations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
11.3 Different Priority Settings and Potential Tensions . . . . . . . . . . 221
11.4 Multilevel and Multiscale Issues and Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
11.4.1 Coordination Above Local Level for Increased
Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
11.4.2 Larger Scales for Long-Term Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . 226
11.5 Awareness and the Public and Political Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . 227
11.6 Conclusion: Diagnosis and Scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
12 Cross-cutting Perspective on Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Hans Bressers and Ulf Stein
12.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
12.2 Drought and Water Scarcity Problems Related to Nature . . . . . 231
12.3 Drought Issues and Other Climate Change
and Competing Sectors’ Risks for Nature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
12.4 Multilevel and Multiscale Issues and Nature Measures. . . . . . . 237
12.5 Awareness on Nature Effects of Drought and the Public
and Political Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
12.6 Conclusion: Highlighting the Main Issues
and Their Prospects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
12.6.1 Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
12.6.2 Cognitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
12.6.3 Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
13 Towards a Drought Policy in North-West European Regions? . . . 245
Corinne Larrue, Nanny Bressers and Hans Bressers
13.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
13.2 How Governance Can Be Characterized in Each Region? . . . . 246
13.2.1 A Low Level of Awareness as Regards
the Drought Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
13.2.2 Effective Water Governance as Regards Actors
and Their Networks in All of the Regions . . . . . . . . . 248
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Carina Furusho, Rodrigo Vidaurre, Isabelle La Jeunesse
and Maria-Helena Ramos
11.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
11.2 Drinking Water Scarcity Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
11.2.1 Relashionship between Water Quality
and Water Quantity for Freshwater Uses . . . . . . . . . . 218
11.2.2 The Diversity of Water Consumption Monitoring
Situations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
11.3 Different Priority Settings and Potential Tensions . . . . . . . . . . 221
11.4 Multilevel and Multiscale Issues and Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
11.4.1 Coordination Above Local Level for Increased
Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
11.4.2 Larger Scales for Long-Term Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . 226
11.5 Awareness and the Public and Political Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . 227
11.6 Conclusion: Diagnosis and Scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
12 Cross-cutting Perspective on Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Hans Bressers and Ulf Stein
12.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
12.2 Drought and Water Scarcity Problems Related to Nature . . . . . 231
12.3 Drought Issues and Other Climate Change
and Competing Sectors’ Risks for Nature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
12.4 Multilevel and Multiscale Issues and Nature Measures. . . . . . . 237
12.5 Awareness on Nature Effects of Drought and the Public
and Political Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
12.6 Conclusion: Highlighting the Main Issues
and Their Prospects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
12.6.1 Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
12.6.2 Cognitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
12.6.3 Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
13 Towards a Drought Policy in North-West European Regions? . . . 245
Corinne Larrue, Nanny Bressers and Hans Bressers
13.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
13.2 How Governance Can Be Characterized in Each Region? . . . . 246
13.2.1 A Low Level of Awareness as Regards
the Drought Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
13.2.2 Effective Water Governance as Regards Actors
and Their Networks in All of the Regions . . . . . . . . . 248
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