Groundwater governance: addressing core concepts and challenges

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.regionMiddle East
cg.coverage.regionNorthern Africa
cg.creator.identifierAlvar Closas: 0000-0002-7087-1413
cg.creator.identifierKaren Grothe Villholth: 0000-0002-7552-6715
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1392en
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH049371
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2049-1948en
cg.issue1en
cg.journalWIREs Wateren
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume7en
dc.contributor.authorClosas, Alvaren
dc.contributor.authorVillholth, Karen G.en
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-31T08:47:26Zen
dc.date.available2019-12-31T08:47:26Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/106349
dc.titleGroundwater governance: addressing core concepts and challengesen
dcterms.abstractWith decreasing aquifer levels, increasing groundwater pollution, inequitable access, and generally poor management outcomes, better groundwater governance has been put forward as a recipe to address these challenges worldwide. Existing recommendations focus on improved legal frameworks, monitoring and control of access and abstraction through permits or formal rights. In addition, decentralized water management, enforcement of regulations, and supply-side technological solutions are seen as cornerstone components of good groundwater governance systems. However, until now, these approaches have generally failed to reconcile the fundamental dynamics and properties of groundwater as a natural resource and of governance as a social and political phenomenon. This has caused a disregard for local to planetary boundaries, power dynamics, and intra- and intergenerational inequalities in access to benefits from groundwater. As the current general notion of good groundwater governance is limited, solutions put forward are also partial and do not encompass the wider challenges affecting groundwater governance, in effect replacing sustainable management goals and policy for governance as a process. This paper takes a particular look at the Middle East and North Africa and agricultural groundwater use for irrigation to constructively redefine groundwater governance and fully address the multilayered and multifaceted core challenges of groundwater governance. Equally, the paper puts forward a new conceptual thinking that will help support the effective development of governance-based solutions to achieve sustainable, socially acceptable, resilient and equitable resource use.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.available2019-10-11
dcterms.bibliographicCitationClosas, Alvar; Villholth, Karen G. 2020. Groundwater governance: addressing core concepts and challenges. WIREs Water 7:e1392. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1392en
dcterms.issued2020-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherWileyen
dcterms.subjectgroundwater managementen
dcterms.subjectwater governanceen
dcterms.subjectwater policyen
dcterms.subjectwater lawen
dcterms.subjectlegislationen
dcterms.subjectdecentralizationen
dcterms.subjectwater supplyen
dcterms.subjectsocial aspectsen
dcterms.subjectpolitical aspectsen
dcterms.subjectsustainabilityen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectmonitoringen
dcterms.subjectocean engineeringen
dcterms.subjectecologyen
dcterms.subjectoceanographyen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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