Water Policy Vol 10 No 5 pp 481–500 © IWA Publishing 2008 doi:10.2166/wp.2008.062
Evolution of the Greek national regime for water resources
Eleftheria Kampaa,b and Hans Bressersc
aCorresponding author. Institute for Environmental and Landscape Planning, Technical University Berlin, EB 4-2, Straße des 17. Juni 145, D-10623, Berlin, Germany
bCurrently at: Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Pfalzburger Strasse 43/44, D - 10717, Berlin, Germany ekampa@web.de
cCenter for Clean Technology and Environmental Policy, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands
ABSTRACT
This paper characterizes and explains the development of the Greek national water regime, based on a framework from institutional resource regime theory. The specific framework combines public resource policies with property rights and operationalizes the concept of integration for resource regimes. The paper concentrates on attempts at more integrated water management in Greece (via important national water laws), which were mainly driven by increasing water resource degradation and EU water policies. It is argued that national attempts since the 1980s (especially the 1987 Water Law) were unsuccessful also under the influence of an unfavourable institutional context which prevailed at the time of the attempts. The outcome of a new 2003 Water Law in practice remains to be seen. The path to integration must involve significant efforts to overcome institutional obstacles which hindered integrated water management in the past.
Keywords: Greece; Institutions; Integrated water management; Water policy; Water regime; Water rights
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