Coming to the table: collaborative governance and groundwater decision-making in coastal California

Brown, A.C.; Langridge, Ruth; Rudestam, Kirsten

doi:10.1080/09640568.2015.1130690

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“…The game may therefore be a useful educational tool to improve willingness to engage with cooperative water management. The vivid visualization of differences in amounts of water use may enhance recognition of the importance of inclusion and equity in groundwater management [5]. Finally, serious games play a valuable role in allowing stakeholder groups to explore different possible outcomes of unfamiliar management strategies within a low-stakes simulation environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The law requires the formation of local groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) and, for many groundwater basins, the development of groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs). The law mandates that these plans address how local stakeholders will manage groundwater to avoid the following "undesirable results": (1) lower groundwater levels, (2) degraded water quality, (3) seawater intrusion, (4) land subsidence, (5) reduced groundwater storage, and (6) depletion of interconnected surface water. The act gives GSAs broad leeway in the specific actions they take to meet these goals, allowing them to tailor their plans to their unique local contexts [5].…”

Section: Collaborative Management Of California Groundwatermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The law mandates that these plans address how local stakeholders will manage groundwater to avoid the following "undesirable results": (1) lower groundwater levels, (2) degraded water quality, (3) seawater intrusion, (4) land subsidence, (5) reduced groundwater storage, and (6) depletion of interconnected surface water. The act gives GSAs broad leeway in the specific actions they take to meet these goals, allowing them to tailor their plans to their unique local contexts [5]. Depending on local needs, management strategies may include the imposition of spacing requirements on new groundwater well construction, establishing pumping allocations, allowing for the transfer of allocations, assessing fees on pumping, and the development of agricultural land fallowing programs [6].…”

Section: Collaborative Management Of California Groundwatermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Learning to Manage Common Resources: Stakeholders Playing a Serious Game See Increased Interdependence in Groundwater Basin Management

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Briones

et al. 2020

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This paper reports an empirical evaluation of a new serious game created to foster learning about collaborative management of common pool resources. Stakeholders (n = 41) involved in the implementation of California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act were recruited to play a new serious game designed to illustrate how alternative water management strategies, including pumping restrictions and simple trading schemes, affect supply. In the game, a group of six players set in a groundwater basin area enact the allocation, needs, and use of water in rounds representing annual seasons. Pre-post surveys found that the gameplay increased perceived interdependence among stakeholders, and optimism about the groundwater management process. Qualitative feedback suggested that participants gained new insights into the nature of common pool resources and the needs of other stakeholders. Serious games may be useful in fostering attitudes, such as interdependence needed for successful collaborative planning and governance.

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Section: Collaborative Management Of California Groundwatermentioning

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“…The implementation of SGMA presents an unprecedented opportunity to study one of the most important theoretical questions in the field of environmental governance: the evolution of new governance institutions for managing common-pool resources (Blomquist, Schlager, and Heikkila 2004;Brown, Langridge, and Rudestam 2016;Ostrom 1990;Schlager, Blomquist, and Tang 1994). Groundwater is a classic example of a common pool resource that is unsustainable when people ignore the social costs of their individual resource-use decisions.…”

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Sustainable Groundwater Management in California: A Grand Experiment in Environmental Governance

Lubell

Blomquist

Beutler

2020

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Innovative Approaches to Collaborative Groundwater Governance in the United States: Case Studies from Three High-Growth Regions in the Sun Belt

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Gerlak

Huang

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Environmental Management

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Groundwater is an increasingly important source of freshwater, especially where surface water resources are fully or over-allocated or becoming less reliable due to climate change. Groundwater reliance has created new challenges for sustainable management. This article examines how regional groundwater users coordinate and collaborate to manage shared groundwater resources, including attention to what drives collaboration. To identify and illustrate these facets, this article examines three geographically diverse cases of groundwater governance and management from the United States Sun Belt: Orange County Water District in southern California; Prescott Active Management Area in north-central Arizona; and the Central Florida Water Initiative in central Florida. These regions have different surface water laws, groundwater allocation and management laws and regulations, demographics, economics, topographies, and climate. These cases were selected because the Sun Belt faces similar pressures on groundwater due to historical and projected population growth and limited availability of usable surface water supplies. Collectively, they demonstrate groundwater governance trends in the United States, and illustrate distinctive features of regional groundwater management strategies. Our research shows how geophysical realities and state-level legislation have enabled and/or stimulated regions to develop groundwater management plans and strategies to address the specific issues associated with their groundwater resources. We find that litigation involvement and avoidance, along with the need to finance projects, are additional drivers of regional collaboration to manage groundwater. This case study underscores the importance of regionally coordinated and sustained efforts to address serious groundwater utilization challenges faced by the regions studied and around the world.

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Coming to the table: collaborative governance and groundwater decision-making in coastal California

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Learning to Manage Common Resources: Stakeholders Playing a Serious Game See Increased Interdependence in Groundwater Basin Management

Learning to Manage Common Resources: Stakeholders Playing a Serious Game See Increased Interdependence in Groundwater Basin Management

Sustainable Groundwater Management in California: A Grand Experiment in Environmental Governance

Innovative Approaches to Collaborative Groundwater Governance in the United States: Case Studies from Three High-Growth Regions in the Sun Belt

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