National Research Council of Italy - Water Research Institute (CNR- IRSA), Via del Mulino 19, 20861, Brugherio, Monza-Brianza, Italy.
Ambio. 2024 Jan;53(1):95-108. doi: 10.1007/s13280-023-01918-0. Epub 2023 Sep 8.
The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) is one of the most studied environmental legislations and recently turned twenty. The paper deals with a literature search and analysis of 4120 references related to this Directive. After a period of strong increase in article production (2002-2012) WFD scientific productivity is currently still high (~ 260 papers year), suggesting a persistent interest of the scientific community on this issue. Most research supporting the WFD was on water sciences, but contributions were also from governance and socio-economic disciplines. Studies on biological quality elements and rivers were prominent. The WFD implementation has seen a strong participation of scientists from all EU countries, and partially also from outside-EU nations. To improve the EU water policy and management, the paper suggests a greater interconnection between WFD and other EU Directives and indicates some emerging environmental issues to which the Directive should address.
《欧盟水框架指令》（WFD）是研究最多的环境法规之一，最近刚满二十岁。本文涉及对 4120 篇与该指令相关文献的搜索和分析。在文章产量（2002-2012 年）大幅增长后，WFD 的科学研究仍然保持高产（每年约 260 篇论文），这表明科学界对该问题的持续关注。大多数支持 WFD 的研究是关于水科学的，但也有来自治理和社会经济学科的贡献。关于生物质量要素和河流的研究尤为突出。WFD 的实施见证了来自所有欧盟国家的科学家的积极参与，部分非欧盟国家的科学家也参与其中。为了改进欧盟的水政策和管理，本文建议加强 WFD 与其他欧盟指令之间的联系，并指出了一些新兴的环境问题，该指令应该对此加以处理。
