Publications tagged with groundwater overexploitation
Developing Substitution Resources as Compensation for Reduced Groundwater Entitlements: The Case of the Poitou Marshes (France)
2020 -
Douez,Olivier
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du Peuty,Jean Eudes
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Lepercq,Daniel
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Montginoul,Marielle
This chapter describes the groundwater management policy implemented in the Poitou marshes, a 100,000 ha wetland located on the Atlantic coast in Western France. Similarly to other French basins, irrigated agriculture has rapidly developed since the 1980s, mainly based on groundwater exploitation. …