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Over nearly thirty years <?tf=“t906”>Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (EPC) has been publishing agenda-defining papers on a number of topics related to government and policy in the broad sense. We examine what has been published, assess the impact it has made, and identify who the main...</?tf=“t906”>

By any measure, European Community (EC) water policy has been very poorly implemented by the Member States, and lacks self-consistency in some key respects and a sound scientific foundation. The conventional wisdom is that policies decided collectively tend towards the lowest common denominator...