Sustainable Groundwater Management

A Comparative Analysis of French and Australian Policies and Implications to Other Countries

Steve Barnett editor Cameron Holley editor Jean-Daniel Rinaudo editor Marielle Montginoul editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:17th Mar '21

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This book describes and analyses the diversity of possible approaches and policy pathways to implement sustainable groundwater development, based on a comparative analysis of numerous quantitative management case studies from France and Australia.

This unique book brings together water professionals and academics involved for several decades in groundwater policy making, planning or operational management to reflect on their experience with developing and implementing groundwater management policy. The data and analysis presented accordingly makes a significant contribution to the empirical water management literature by providing novel, real world insights unpublished elsewhere.

The originality of the contributions also lies in the different disciplinary perspectives (hydrogeology, economics, planning and social sciences in particular) adopted in many chapters.

The book offers a unique comparative analysis of France, Australia and experiences in countriessuch as Chile and the US to identify similarities, but also fundamental differences, which are analysed and presented as alternative policy options – these differences being mainly related to the role of the state, the community and market mechanisms in groundwater management.

“This book is definitely essential reading for groundwater scholars looking to advance their thinking about how groundwater overexploitation could be curbed.” (François Molle, water-alternatives.org, 2020)

ISBN: 9783030327682

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562 pages

1st ed. 2020