Aqua2030: how to imagine future policies on water and aquatic ecosystems on national as well as local scales?

Abstract

In 2009, the Ministry for Sustainable Development launched the foresight study "Water, Aquatic environment and sustainable territories in 2030," called Aqua2030. Conducted nationwide, this study had the ambition to provide a methodology for local decision-makers interested in foresight studies to develop their local policies on water and aquatic environments. It was also aimed to produce a number of recommendations to assist all levels of public decision-making in this area. Three years after the end of the Aqua2030 study, this article attempts, having briefly outlined the major objectives of this project, to present and analyze the results produced, it then attempts to determine the impact of Aqua2030 on stakeholders and on the construction of public policies at different levels of decision-making.