Table of Contents
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