This article assesses the sustainability potential of the urban water systems in Europe (UWSE) following their modernisation. A decade after implementation and close to the first deadlines, modernisation efforts seem to have not been (totally) successful. This article examines the ability of...

Urban areas are becoming increasingly subject to and vulnerable to water-related natural disasters. Urban areas are a kind of socio-ecological system wherein the human development dynamics co-evolve with the natural dynamics. Most of the literature is focused on the impact of natural disasters...

Performance reporting in sunshine regulation is subject to disclosure biases, because agents may game the regulation or encounter di culties in complying. These biases limit the appraisal of the impact of sunshine regulation on performance. We investigate the behavioral causes of such disclosure...

Environmental governance faces inconsistencies limiting its efficiency and ability to frame a sustainable co-evolution of Human and Nature. Regarding natural resource governance in developing countries, frictions in between policy design and property rights allocation cause these...

Since the 1980s, the European Union favours regulatory reforms in network industries and the water sector appears to be the latest to be included in this. We deal with this issue while questioning the concept of "modernization of the Urban Water Systems in European (UWSE)." This process began in...

This article examines the phenomenon of local resistance to regulation by instruments in the water sector. Governance failures are mainly explained by concentrating on governance design, considering regulation as a set of control mechanisms. We propose an alternative perspective by putting the...

Integration of environmental governance is considered a favorable scenario for sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems. However, the patterns of integration remain under-investigated. In this paper, we examine the relationship between the extension of governance scope and its integration in...