The increasing demand for solar-powered irrigation systems in agriculture has spurred a race for projects as it potentially offers a cost-effective and sustainable energy solution to off-grid farmers while helping food production and sustaining livelihoods. As a result, countries such as Morocco ...
Closas, Alvar
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Rap., E.
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[Solar-based groundwater pumping for irrigation: Sustainability, policies, and limitations]
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Solar-based groundwater pumping for irrigation: Sustainability, policies, and limitations
Because of the logics of both colonization or de-colonization, the need to counter the anarchy of groundwater use, or the dissemination of global 'best practices' of IWRM, states have often assumed full ownership or custody of groundwater. Regulating groundwater use includes giving drilling and a...
Molle, Francois
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Closas, Alvar
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[State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite?]
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State regulations in groundwater management: they bark but do they bite?
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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[Groundwater governance in the Middle East and North Africa. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].]
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Groundwater governance in the Middle East and North Africa. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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[Groundwater governance in Asia and the Pacific. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].]
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Groundwater governance in Asia and the Pacific. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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[Groundwater governance in Europe. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].]
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Groundwater governance in Europe. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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[Groundwater governance in Sub-Saharan Africa. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].]
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Groundwater governance in Sub-Saharan Africa. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges].
This article explores the creation of new groundwater-based irrigation communities as a result of the internal colonisation projects of Franco’s government in the 1950s in La Mancha, Central Spain. The literature on Spain’s hydraulic mission has mainly focused on the use and mobilisation of large...
Closas, Alvar
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[Groundwater, the state, and the creation of irrigation communities in Llanos del Caudillo, Spain]
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Groundwater, the state, and the creation of irrigation communities in Llanos del Caudillo, Spain
Closas, Alvar
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Villholth, Karen G.
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[Aquifer contracts: a means to solving groundwater over-exploitation in Morocco?]
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Aquifer contracts: a means to solving groundwater over-exploitation in Morocco?
This paper presents a historical analysis of the different policy tools used to manage and regulate groundwater abstraction in the Western Mancha aquifer. Without much initial regulation and control, groundwater resources and aquifer levels decreased dramatically, threatening agriculture and also...
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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Hernández Mora, N.
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[Sticks and carrots: managing groundwater overabstraction in La Mancha, Spain]
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Sticks and carrots: managing groundwater overabstraction in La Mancha, Spain
This study examines the socioeconomic features that underpin the expansion of groundwater-dependent irrigation in Northern State, Sudan. Groundwater development in the region serves as an economic lifeline given the poor Nile-based irrigation infrastructure and future changes in Nile hydrology. G...
Fragaszy, S.
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Closas, Alvar
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[Cultivating the desert: irrigation expansion and groundwater abstraction in northern state, Sudan]
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Cultivating the desert: irrigation expansion and groundwater abstraction in northern state, Sudan