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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Theesfeld, Insa |
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Conference:
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Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local Experience to Global Challenges, the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons |
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Location:
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Cheltenham, England |
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Conf. Date:
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July 14-18, 2008 |
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Date:
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2008 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2375
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Sector:
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Water Resource & Irrigation |
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Region:
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East Asia |
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Subject(s):
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groundwater
institutions
transboundary resources
IASC
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Abstract:
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"A profound understanding of different options for national groundwater governance and of the experiences gained with them is a precondition for developing policy recommendations for transboundary groundwater governance, likewise. The question raised is what can we learn from a comprehensive empirical review of national groundwater governance about institutional constraints of transboundary governance. The paper reviews and analyzes current national groundwater policy instruments, mainly from South-East Asia. The paper discusses crucial institutional aspects of groundwater governance derived from this review: 1) voluntary compliance, 2) tradition and mental models, 3) bureaucracy, 4) conflict resolution mechanism, 5) political economy, 6) information. Each of them adhere specific institutional challenges that either hinder or foster effective policy implementation. The six items help to account for relevant institutional aspects, for instance with the debate on either extending the mandates of existing river and/or lake basin organizations for transboundary groundwater governance or establishing new aquifer management organizations that cover the whole resource systems."
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