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The potential limitations on its basin decision-making processes of granting self-defence rights to Father Rhine

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  • Bettina Wilk
  • Dries L. T. Hegger
  • Carel Dieperink
  • Rakhyun E. Kim
  • Peter P. J. Driessen

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Recent grants of legal rights to rivers would seem to infuse traditional anthropocentric river governance with greater eco-centrism. Through a thought experiment, we scrutinize this proposition for the Rhine basin. We consider the governance implications of granting (procedural/material) rights to the river and elaborate on their implications for the three highly institutionalized regimes of the Rhine River of water quality, flooding and transport. Since we find that a shift to more eco-centrism has already occurred and since the right granted to the river would not be absolute, we deem radical transformations unlikely.

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  • Bettina Wilk & Dries L. T. Hegger & Carel Dieperink & Rakhyun E. Kim & Peter P. J. Driessen, 2019. "The potential limitations on its basin decision-making processes of granting self-defence rights to Father Rhine," Water International, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(6-7), pages 684-700, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rwinxx:v:44:y:2019:i:6-7:p:684-700
    DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2019.1651965
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