Advances in Groundwater Governance

This book presents the complexity and many dimensions of groundwater governance in 28 chapters, written by a global team of leading experts. The first part of the book defines groundwater governance, exploring its emergence and evolution, framing it through a socio-ecological lens and describing groundwater policy and planning approaches. The second part discusses key aspects of groundwater governance, including leadership, political support, participation, cooperation, and conflict resolution. The third examines the linkages between groundwater and other resources/sectors and the fourth part presents eight case studies that illustrate current practices in groundwater governance worldwide.

Auteur

Karen G. Villholth, Alberto Garrido

Résumé
This book addresses groundwater governance, a subject internationally recognized as crucial and topical for enhancing and safeguarding the benefits of groundwater and groundwater-dependent ecosystems to humanity, while ensuring water and food security under global change. The multiple and complex dimensions of groundwater governance are captured in 28 chapters, written by a team of leading experts from different parts of the world and with a variety of relevant professional backgrounds. The book aims to describe the state-of-the-art and latest developments regarding each of the themes addressed, paying attention to the wide variation of conditions observed around the globe. The book consists of four parts. The first part sets the stage by defining groundwater governance, exploring its emergence and evolution, framing it through a socio-ecological lens and describing groundwater policy and planning approaches. The second part discusses selected key aspects of groundwater governance. The third part zooms in on the increasingly important linkages between groundwater and other resources or sectors, and between local groundwater systems and phenomena or actions at the international or even global level. The fourth part, finally, presents a number of interesting case studies that illustrate contemporary practice in groundwater governance.In one volume, this highly accessible text not only familiarizes water professionals, decision-makers and local stakeholders with groundwater governance, but also provides them with ideas and inspiration for improving groundwater governance in their own environment.

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Part 1: Setting the scene

1 Groundwater governance: rationale, definition, current state and heuristic framework
Karen G. Villholth & Kirstin I. Conti

2 Emergence and evolution of groundwater management and governance
Marco García, Ebel Smidt & Jacobus J. de Vries

3 Understanding groundwater governance through a social ecological system framework - relevance and limits
Marta Rica, Olivier Petit & Elena López-Gunn

4 Groundwater management: policy principles & planning practices
Stephen Foster & John Chilton

Part 2: Key elements of groundwater governance

5 Leadership and political will for groundwater governance: indispensable for meeting the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Alfred M. Duda

6 Legal principles and legal frameworks related to groundwater
Stefano Burchi

7 Participation of stakeholders and citizens in groundwater management: the role of collective action
Zachary Sugg & Edella Schlager

8 Economic instruments, behaviour and incentives in groundwater management
Phoebe Koundouri, Ebun Akinsete, Nikolaos Englezos, Xanti I. Kartala, Ioannis Souliotis & Josef Adler

9 Cooperation and conflict resolution in groundwater and aquifer management
W. Todd Jarvis

10 Data, information, knowledge and diagnostics on groundwater
Jac van der Gun

11 Education and capacity development for groundwater resources management
Viviana Re & Bruce Misstear

12 Groundwater governance - impact of awareness-raising and citizen pressure on groundwater management authority in the United States
Andrew Stone

13 Assessing and monitoring groundwater governance
Aziza Akhmouch & Delphine Clavreul

Part 3: Integration and policy linkages beyond the local groundwater system

14 Groundwater governance for poverty eradication, social equity and health
Sean G. Furey

15 Managing energy-irrigation nexus: insights from Karnataka and Punjab states in India
Aditi Mukherji

16 Steps towards groundwater-sensitive land use governance and management practices
Daniel A. Wiegant & Frank van Steenbergen

17 Linking groundwater and surface water: conjunctive water management
Richard S. Evans & Peter Dillon

18 Global food and trade dimensions of groundwater governance
Arjen Y. Hoekstra

19 Governance and management of transboundary aquifers
Shaminder Puri & Karen G. Villholth

20 Governing extractable subsurface resources and subsurface space
Jac van der Gun & Emilio Custodio

Part 4: Cases

21 Groundwater governance in the Great Artesian Basin, Australia
Rien A. Habermehl

22 Institutions and policies governing groundwater development, use and management in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India
M. Dinesh Kumar

23 Groundwater governance in the European Union, its history and its legislation: an enlightening example of groundwater governance
Jean Fried, Philippe Quevauviller & Elisa Vargas Amelin

24 Groundwater governance in the United States: a mosaic of approaches
Sharon B. Megdal, Adriana Zuniga Teran, Robert G. Varady, Nathaniel Delano, Andrea K. Gerlak & Ethan T. Vimont

25 Turning the tide - curbing groundwater over-abstraction in the Tosca-Molopo area, South Africa
Paul Seward & Gabriel Stephanus du Toit van Dyk

26 Governing groundwater in the Middle East and North Africa Region
François Molle, Alvar Closas & Waleed Al-Zubari

27 Perspectives on Guarani Aquifer Governance
Luiz Amore

28 Groundwater governance in São Paulo and Mexico metropolitan areas: some comparative lessons learnt
Ricardo Hirata & Oscar Escolero