The Danube River Protection Convention forms the overall legal instrument for cooperation on transboundary water management in the Danube River Basin. The Convention, adopted in 1994, was supported by an innovative coalition of non-governmental organizations – the Danube Environmental Forum – which achieved unprecedented representation of civil society in the negotiation and early implementation of the Convention. In this talk, Michael Stanley-Jones will share how the lessons from these negotiations were applied to California‘s Santa Clara Basin Watershed Management Initiative (WMI), in which integrated urban governance was practiced through the participation of all relevant stakeholders, incorporating civil society and business in making or implementing decisions. He will explain how this consensual model of multistakeholder environmental planning led to the adoption of a regional Watershed Management Plan and historic Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) pollution prevention measures to protect the Lower South San Francisco Bay and support the restoration of the San Francisco estuary.
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Speaker
Michael Stanley-Jones
Fellow, Environmental Policy and Governance
