The Segura river basin authority approach

The Segura river basin authority adopted an approach aimed at enhancing public participation, especially regarding the planning activities. For the specific discussion on the introduction of economic policy instruments for water demand management, facilitated stakeholder consultations were carried out through a series of meetings with selected stakeholder groups and complemented with telephone and web conferences. More than 100 stakeholders were actively engaged in the process aimed at designing the economic policy instruments. The main actors involved were: national authorities, river basin authorities, members of the academia, irrigators, consumers' associations, insurance companies, NGOs, and international experts. Meetings were held in Madrid in April 2012, November 2012, April 2013, and June 2013, and were focused on the assessment of the three economic policy instruments considered.

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Cultural Factors: Power relations, Access and use of infrastructure/services

Hazards: Natural hazards

Disaster Phases: Prevention

Types of Actors Concerned: Active citizens, NGOs, UN and other international organisations, Government, National research bodies, Entrepreneurs

Recommendations:

• Improve disaster management processes through better networking and cooperation between public and private actors and a better understanding of the role which each of these actors plays in the different disaster management stages