The adaptive capacity of local water basin authorities to climate change: The Thau lagoon basin in France
(2018) Science of the Total Environment — Vol. 651 (part2), p. 2013-2023 (2018)
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Riche, Cécile 
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- Climate change exacerbates climate variability, and makes water governance more complex. The French local water management plans (SAGE) developed an integrated approach that relies on a balance between bottomup and top-down governance. The aim of this article is to question the actual role of the local basin authorities and ask whether they are central in water governance. The Social Network Analysis of the Thau basin shows that the key actors of the SAGE, namely the Rhone-Mediterranean-Corsica Water Agency, the localwater agency and the local water commission, are the most powerful actors in the management of the river basin and play a crucial brokerage role in climate change adaptation. Integrated water resource management shifted power from territorial and central authorities to functional and local managers.
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Aubin, D., Riche, C., Vande Water, V., & La Jeunesse, I. (2018). The adaptive capacity of local water basin authorities to climate change: The Thau lagoon basin in France. Science of the Total Environment, 651 (part2), 2013-2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.078 (Original work published 2018)