Global governance principles for the sustainable development of groundwater resources

Conti, Kirstin I.; Gupta, Joyeeta

doi:10.1007/s10784-015-9316-3

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“…On allocation via treaty/policy design, articles focus on fairness through transparency and data exchange (Gerlak et al, 2011 ) and principles of water governance (e.g. equitable and reasonable utilization, stakeholder participation, polluter pays; Conti & Gupta, 2016 ). While these principles may promote justice, they are difficult to implement.…”

Section: Empirical Domains: Climate Water the 2030 Agendamentioning

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Equity, justice and the SDGs: lessons learnt from two decades of INEA scholarship

Gupta

Vegelin

2022

Int Environ Agreements

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Environmental justice issues have been incrementally but consistently covered within this journal in the last two decades. This article reviews theoretical and empirical approaches to justice in INEA scholarship in order to identify trends and draw lessons for the interpretation and implementation of the 2030 Agenda and for living within environmental limits. Our review traces how justice considerations were initially covered within new institutionalist scholarship on collective action and social practices, to conceptualizing justice as ‘access and allocation’, to newer notions of planetary justice. We link these trends to scholarship on diverse epistemologies and typologies of justice, including conservative, corrective, distributive and procedural justice, and examine their operationalization within the empirical domains of climate, water and sustainable development. In concluding, we draw out implications for the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. We argue that a just approach is essential to living within environmental limits, with greater synergies needed between collective action and social practice approaches. While justice can be unpacked for practical and political reasons into access and allocation, we find that (procedural) access considerations are more politically palatable in practice than a concern with allocation (distributive justice), which remains much more contested. As such, dominant approaches promote ‘conservative’ or thin market-based notions of justice. We conclude by noting that just allocation is a precondition to just access. A failure to prioritize and achieve more corrective and distributive forms of justice will, without doubt, contribute to exacerbating global ecological degradation.

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Section: Empirical Domains: Climate Water the 2030 Agendamentioning

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Equity, justice and the SDGs: lessons learnt from two decades of INEA scholarship

Gupta

Vegelin

2022

Int Environ Agreements

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“…Commons are consistent with state water supply; commodity with private sector or PPPs. The commodity frame is reflected in de facto trade regimes (Conti & Gupta, 2016 ). However, this by no means implies consistent market frames follow commodity or market relations (Opschoor, 2006 ).…”

Section: International Environmental Agreements Of Water: Lessons Learntmentioning

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“…These objectives provide indicators on allowing swimming and recreational use (unrestricted by environmental quality concerns) and on being free from aquatic invasive species. Conti and Gupta ( 2016 ) considered indicators of groundwater quality and quantity, significant harm to others, and measures to apply the precautionary principle (however they conclude specific measures as missing in the literature and data in water management practices). Jiménez-Madrid et al ( 2018 ) proposed a system of indicators for operationalising conservation, safeguard measures and associated risk pressures/vulnerabilities in relation to groundwater that impacts GDP.…”

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Reflecting on twenty years of international agreements concerning water governance: insights and key learning

Mirumachi

Hurlbert

2022

Int Environ Agreements

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The purpose of this article is to examine the research advanced in the journal, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics that represents key insights into international agreements on water and their political, legal, economic and cross-disciplinary dimensions for water governance. The article analyses evidence and lessons learnt over the last twenty years to inform policy through a review of theoretical advances, innovations in principles and policy instruments, outcomes of problem-solving and knowledge gained regarding water agreements and associated institutions. Important international agreement principles of no significant harm and economic frames of water as a ‘commons’ advance equity and community of interest in relation to water. The studies on water, sanitation and hygiene point to the ways the role of the state can be advanced in achieving Sustainable Development Goals and in complex contexts of water scarcity and public private partnerships. Cross-disciplinary learnings substantiate the existence and utility of multiple water frames in legal arrangements and use of multiple policy instruments. Cross-disciplinary insights are significant in addressing equity, whether through the nascent development of water indicators or in advancing social learning. Water governance frameworks increasingly focus on adaptation by incorporating multiple stakeholders. These findings that advance equity and inclusivity are tempered by crucial lessons in our understanding of the very contested, power-laden nature of water governance that impact agency at multiple scales and policy coordination across sectors of water, food and energy.

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“…The inter-state transboundary catchment committee would enhance the regional Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) and the Nile Basin Initiative Act (2002) coordinated by the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) among other international water instruments aimed at controlling state behaviour and promote cooperation [99]. Governance of transboundary catchment aquifers is also critical, because over-abstraction, contamination and degradation of recharge areas threaten the sustainability of aquifers worldwide according to the International Groundwater Resource Assessment Centre [100,101].…”

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Integrated Water Resources Management Approaches to Improve Water Resources Governance

Katusiime

Schütt

2020

Water

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The water crisis can alternatively be called a governance crisis. Thus, the demand for good water governance to ensure effective water resources management and to attain specific water goals is growing. Many countries subscribe to the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach to achieve this goal. The Integrated Water Resources Management approach aims to ensure a process that promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land, and related resources in a drainage basin to maximise economic and social welfare equitably without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems. The design of the Integrated Water Resources Management approach, including its pillars and principles, aspires to good water governance and effective resource management. However, empirical studies examining this hypothesis and analysing the impact of the Integrated Water Resources Management approach on water resources governance are limited, especially in developing countries. Therefore, we characterised and compared the water resources governance aspects of two catchments in Uganda’s Lake Albert basin. One of the catchments was exposed to integrated water resources management projects, while the other had no exposure to integrated water resources management projects. Some of the factors that supported the comparability of the two sites included spatial proximity linking into a related hydrological and social-economic setup, common water needs and belonging to the same water administration zone. Comparing both areas led us to analyse whether there was a difference in water resources governance actions, as well as in the quality of water resources governance, under the same overall water management and administrative zone. The data were based on field surveys using questionnaires and information guides in both catchments. The results show that the performance of water resources governance is markedly better in the catchment with Integrated Water Resources Management practices than the base catchment unaffected by these practices. Key themes examined include water resources governance styles, water resources governance systems presence, functionality, the performance of good governance principles, and water resources management effectiveness. The findings contribute to the aspirations for the promotion of integrated water management approaches for improved water resources governance, and the concept that the effectiveness of water resources management measures depends on governance effectiveness. Water governance is significant, as it spells out the power, rights, decisions, and priorities relating to given water resources and communities.

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Global governance principles for the sustainable development of groundwater resources

Cited by 17 publications

References 34 publications

Equity, justice and the SDGs: lessons learnt from two decades of INEA scholarship

Equity, justice and the SDGs: lessons learnt from two decades of INEA scholarship

Reflecting on twenty years of international agreements concerning water governance: insights and key learning

Integrated Water Resources Management Approaches to Improve Water Resources Governance

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