Su Dong, Liu Jian

Keywords： Governance Scenario; Administrative Agreement; Actor Network; The Netherlands; The Southwest Delta

Abstract：

The Southwest Delta of the Netherlands, standing at the confluence of the Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt rivers, is considered as a “laboratory” for cross-border governance,  because of its multiple tasks in flooding control, water supply and spatial planning and its complex transboundary status, both of which make its watershed management quite challenging. In recent years, as a specific policy zone of the Dutch National Delta Program, it has continued its explorations in cross-border governance, targeting at the ambitious goal of “becoming the world’s first climate-resilient region by 2050”. Adopting the idea of pluralistic governance and the perspectives of governance scenarios, governance tools and governance networks, this paper analyzes the shifts of this transboundary region’s governance scenarios and the corresponding adaptation of its discourses and decisions, and summarizes its latest expertise in the application of protocols and the construction of actor networks. Based on the Dutch experience of cross-border governance of climate change and water management and in view of China’s practice and theorization of cross-border governance, this paper puts forward the following suggestions: promoting “spatial image building” based on the understanding of complex governance scenarios; enhancing the regulative authority and long-term implementation of regional agreement tools; expanding the network governance and strengthening the translational capacity of actors.

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