Introduction &Goals. The goal of the Performance Appraisal Program is to implement a revised teacher observation and evaluation process. The major objectives of this plan include the following:
Introduction &Goals. In recent years, although with long lasting precedents in previous decades (see Xxxxxx, 1992, and detailed review in Xxxxx, 2006), a lively debate has emerged over the notion of river basin as the unquestionable adequate scale for water management and governance (Budds & Xxxxxxxx, 2012; Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxx, 2011; Xxxxxx, 2011; Xxxxx et al., 2010; Xxxxxx et al., 2012; Xxxxxxxxx, 2005). This critical discussion develops along with a revision of the ideal concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM – Xxxxxx, 2004; Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx, 2005), in the framework of a larger theoretical debate on the politics of scale for managing natural resources (Xxxxxx et al., 2002; Xxxxxx, 1990; Xxxxxx et al., 2007). Over a decade after the approval of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), close to the end of its first cycle of water planning (2009-2015), this article reviews the complex experience of water 18Full citation: Xxx Xxxxx, L. and Xx O, A. 2014. Water governance and scalar politics across multiple-boundary river basins: States, catchments and territorial powers in the Iberian Peninsula. Water International 39(3): 333-347.DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2013.878816 management in the Iberian Peninsula, where river basins, intertwined with national, regional and local borders, have long marked the management of common water resources. The two key research questions that it poses are: a) to what extent could the river basin be confirmed, altered or reinterpreted as the key spatial unit for water management, in the light of the WFD implementing experience; and b) to what extent could the recent critical debate on the ‘river basin panacea’ (Molle, 2008; Xxxx, 2012; Xxxx-Xxxxx et al., 2012) be transferred to the Iberian Peninsula case? By searching the answers to these questions, the article inquiries into two interrelated issues: one is the role of different institutional framings and scalar constructions on the management of river basins spanning across different level (international and interregional) boundaries; the other is the linkage of the debates on scalar politics and cross-border water management, by identifying the factors justifying and criticizing the river basin scale as its normative unit (Fall 2005, 2010; Xxxxxxx 2006; Xxxxxx 2012; Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx 2009).
