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dc.contributor.advisorMoen, Øystein
dc.contributor.advisorRuud, Audun
dc.contributor.authorAbazaj, Jonida
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-11T14:48:34Z
dc.date.available2021-01-11T14:48:34Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.isbn978-82-326-4809-2
dc.identifier.issn1503-8181
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2722428
dc.description.abstractThe EU Member States rely on a vast range of policy and legislations which covers the main policy areas, whose extent and the intensity have increased exponentially during the last decades. While the abundance of legal instruments and policies represents a certainty of tutelage to EU citizens and businesses, it has at the same time risen concerns related to the lack of coherence and the consequent conflict that can rise between the goals of different EU legal frameworks and policies. Through the case of hydropower, which is at a crossroads between being a renewable electricity source - answering to climate change and energy security concerns - and a local environmental challenge causing degradation of river ecosystems and local biodiversity, this thesis explores the conflicting objectives of the EU’s Water Framework Directive and the Renewable Energy Directive, aiming to understand how renewable energy and water protection objectives can be integrated and achieved. Hydropower represents a relevant sector in order to address the dilemma that originates from proposals for action that are contradictory or difficult to reconcile, but that one must nonetheless choose between. As such the present dissertation is relevant for and aims to contribute to research on policy integration and coherence. By using a qualitative approach based on documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews, this research reveals that after two decades from the official adoption of the WFD, the integration of objectives of water and energy policies in the context of hydropower has not succeeded and the application of these policies still involves trade-offs that struggle to be reconciled among concerns for secure energy supply, climate change mitigation and improved water quality. The reconciliation of the objectives continues being pursued both at the EU level through the Common Implementation Strategy, and at the national level through the organizational and institutional changes initiated with the adoption of the WFD. However, at both levels, it has been possible to identify the persistence of political disputes and power struggles fueled by conflicting priorities and scarce ambitions of stakeholders, as well as flexibility and discretionary power of the Member Statesen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherNTNUen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDoctoral theses at NTNU;2020:230
dc.titleReconciling energy and water policy objectives for the European hydropower sectoren_US
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210en_US
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