Actionable knowledge for sustainability at the water-land nexus: An inquiry into governance and social learning in two river basins in Luxembourg

Hondrila, Kristina

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	Document type :	Dissertations and theses : Doctoral thesis
	Discipline(s) :	Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Multidisciplinary, general & others
	Focus Areas :	Sustainable Development
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/46488

Title :	Actionable knowledge for sustainability at the water-land nexus: An inquiry into governance and social learning in two river basins in Luxembourg
Language :	English
Translated title :	[de] Handlungswissen für Nachhaltigkeit am Wasser-Land-Nexus. Eine Analyse von Governance und sozialem Lernen in zwei Flussgebieten in Luxemburg
Author, co-author :	Hondrila, Kristina [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Social Sciences (DSOC) >]
Publication date :	3-Dec-2020
Institution :	University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Name of the degree :	Docteur en Sciences Sociales
Number of pages :	520
Supervisor :	König, Ariane
President of the jury :	Schulz, Christian
Member of the jury :	Pahl-Wostl, Claudia
	Chabay, Ilan
	Manhart, Sebastian
Keywords :	[en] sustainability ; knowledge ; environmental governance ; social learning ; Luxembourg ; water ; land-use
Abstract :	[en] The thesis offers in-depth empirical insights into diverse factors that foster or hinder collective capacities of actors to address sustainability challenges at the water-land nexus. It focuses on how relations, knowledge, and practices in diverse organisations and professions engaged in governance and social learning processes in the Syr and Upper Sûre river basins in Luxembourg have changed following the entering into force of the EU Water Framework Directive in 2000. Finding that contradictions in water and land systems grow while spaces for self-organisation and meaning-making shrink, the thesis raises fundamental questions concerning both dominant supply- and productivity-oriented paradigms and managerial approaches to sustainability. New governance approaches are needed to foster social learning and actionable knowledge, embracing interrelations between ecological and social dimensions of sustainability.
Research centres :	Education, Culture, Cognition & Society (ECCS) > Institute of Education & Society (InES)
Funders :	Ministry of the Environment
Name of the research project :	NEXUS FUTURES
Target :	Researchers ; Professionals ; Students ; General public
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/46488
Other URL :	https://sustainabilityscience.uni.lu/
Commentary :	[de]: Die EU-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie verpflichtet Luxemburg, seine Gewässer bis spätestens 2027 in einen guten ökologischen Zustand zu bringen. Die Dissertation untersucht Governance-Prozesse in den Flussgebieten der Obersauer und der Syr im Zeitraum 2000-2019, die diese Herausforderung angehen. Die Dissertation gelangt zu dem Schluss, dass das Wasser- und Landsystem in Luxemburg von wachsenden Widersprüchen und schrumpfenden Gestaltungsräumen geprägt ist. Gleichzeitig bietet sie Erkenntnisse und Empfehlungen dazu, wie soziales Lernen und Handlungswissen gefördert werden können, welche die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Akteuren in Wasserwirtschaft, Umweltschutz und Landwirtschaft verbessern und Wandel in Organisationen und beruflichen Praktiken unterstützen (siehe auch deutschsprachige Zusammenfassung).

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