This article reviews and contrasts two approaches that water security researchers employ to advance understanding of the complexity of water-society policy challenges. A prevailing reductionist approach seeks to represent uncertainty through calculable risk, links national GDP tightly to hydro-cl...
Zeitoun, M.
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Lankford, B.A.
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Krueger, T.
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Forsyth, T.
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Carter, R.
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Hoekstra, A.Y.
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Taylor, R.
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Varis, O.
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Cleaver, F.
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Boelens, R.
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Swatuk, L.
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Tickner, D.
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Scott, Christopher A.
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Mirumachi, N.
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Matthews, Nathaniel
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[Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges]
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Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges
With decreasing aquifer levels, increasing groundwater pollution, inequitable access, and generally poor management outcomes, better groundwater governance has been put forward as a recipe to address these challenges worldwide. Existing recommendations focus on improved legal frameworks, monitori...
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
Denmark is making continuous efforts to attain sustainable groundwater management. With groundwater constituting virtually the only resource for all water uses, groundwater management was addressed early on and has progressed over the last century. This article gives an overview of the advances, ...
Jorgensen, L.F.
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Villholth, Karen G.
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Refsgaard, J.C.
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[Groundwater management and protection in Denmark: a review of pre-conditions, advances and challenges]
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Groundwater management and protection in Denmark: a review of pre-conditions, advances and challenges
The control of groundwater over abstraction is a vexing problem worldwide. Jordan is one of the countries facing severe water scarcity which has implemented a wide range of measures and policies over the past 20 years. While the gap between formal legal and policy frameworks and local practices o...
Naber, M.A.
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[Controlling groundwater over abstraction: state policies vs localpractices in the Jordan highlands]
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Controlling groundwater over abstraction: state policies vs localpractices in the Jordan highlands
This article discusses ways in which the South African Government and grassroots organizations envisage and implement democracy achieved since 1994 in the eld of water resources management. The focus is on the democratic, political and economic freedom and equality in resource rights for poor bl...
Schreiner, B.
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Mohapi, N.
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[Washing away poverty: water, democracy and gendered poverty eradication in South Africa]
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Washing away poverty: water, democracy and gendered poverty eradication in South Africa
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
This paper focuses on the application of the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Tanzania. It asks: how did IWRM affect the rural and fast-growing majority of smallholder farmers' access to water which contributes directly to poverty alleviation and employment creation in a...
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Tarimo, A.K.P.R.
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Eeden, A. van
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Manzungu, Emmanuel
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Sumuni, P.M.
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[Winners and losers of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Tanzania]
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Winners and losers of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Tanzania
Despite decades of gender mainstreaming in the water sector, a wide gap between policy commitments and outcomes remains. This study aims at offering a fresh perspective on such policy gaps, by analysing how gendered discourses, institutions and professional culture contribute to policy gaps. We r...
Shrestha, Gitta
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Clement, Floriane
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[Unravelling gendered practices in the public water sector in Nepal]
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Unravelling gendered practices in the public water sector in Nepal
Uganda lies almost wholly within the Nile Basin and is a country characterised as well-endowed with water resources. Receiving considerable inflows of aid since the early 1990s, some of this aid emerging after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro enabled the country to begin a process of Integ...
Nicol, Alan
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Odinga, W.
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[IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Uganda - progress after decades of implementation]
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IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Uganda - progress after decades of implementation