Irrigated agriculture in Jordan's highlands relies on overexploited groundwater. Drops in water tables and water quality, but also tougher policy measures by the government, threaten the sustainability of this activity which has long thrived on lax law enforcement and cheap desert land. This pape...
Naber, M.A.
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Molle, Francois
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[Water and sand: is groundwater-based farming in Jordan's desert sustainable?]
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Water and sand: is groundwater-based farming in Jordan's desert sustainable?
This paper assesses a case of co-management of groundwater between the state of Texas, pushing for the rationalisation of groundwater management, and local (mainly farming) communities organised in Groundwater Conservation Districts (GCDs), which are protective of their private groundwater rights...
Closas, Alvar
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Molle, Francois
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[Chronicle of a demise foretold: state vs. local groundwater management in Texas and the high plains aquifer system]
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Chronicle of a demise foretold: state vs. local groundwater management in Texas and the high plains aquifer system
This article shows how large-scale commercial farmers, individually and collectively, are responding to land and water reform processes in the Thukela River basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. With a high degree of innovative agency, commercial farmers have effectively executed four strategies, e...
Mendez-Barrientos, L.E.
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Kemerink, J.S.
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Wester, P.
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Molle, Francois
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[Commercial farmers’ strategies to control water resources in South Africa: an empirical view of reform]
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Commercial farmers’ strategies to control water resources in South Africa: an empirical view of reform
Faced with severe groundwater depletion, many governments have opted to increase the power of the state. Despite calls for more inclusive governance and a role for groundwater users, modes of governance have tended to continue to rely on a diversity of policy tools and state-run strategies in the...