Productions étiquettées avec groundwater
Mapping economic feasibility of managed aquifer recharge
2020 - Water
Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) constitutes a potential and promising solution to deal with several water management issues: water shortage, water level depletion, groundwater pollution, and saline water intrusion. Among others, the proper siting and cost evaluation of such a solution constitutes so…
La gestion des ressources en eau souterraine : Six situations du bassin méditerranéen analysées sous l'angle de l'économie néo-institutionnelle et de la théorie des contrats
2020 -
Les prélévements en eau souterraine ont triplé en 50 ans et on estime que 20% des aquiféres sont aujourd'hui surexploités é travers le monde. Les raisons de cette surexploitation sont relativement bien connues et tiennent é la caractéristique de "bien commun'' de l'eau souterraine.Deux cadres d'ana…
Participatory scenario planning for sustainable irrigated agriculture when actors seldom communicate: an experiment in Morocco
2018 - International Journal of Water Resources Development
In Morocco, agricultural activities based on groundwater use increasingly face risks of aquifer overdraft and market saturation. However, farmers and public organizations responsible for agriculture and water resources rarely communicate to identify how these risks could be overcome. A participator…
Social justice and groundwater allocation in agriculture: A French case study
2016 -
This chapter focuses on the design of rules for apportioning limited groundwater resources among agricultural users. It shows that different (often antagonist) conceptions of desirable water allocation rules co-exist within the agricultural community, reflecting farmers’ differences in terms of eco…
Policy instruments for decentralized management of agricultural groundwater abstraction: a participatory evaluation
2015 - Ecological Economics
This paper proposes and analyzes three policy instruments which can be used to enhance farmers' compliance with individual water allocations in a decentralized management context. Three regulation strategies are proposed for the case of groundwater allocations for irrigation: the first relies on ec…