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Combining and crafting institutional tools for groundwater governance

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Title Combining and crafting institutional tools for groundwater governance
 
Creator Bruns, Bryan Randolph
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela
 
Subject groundwater management
groundwater
governance
natural resources management
policies
 
Description How could having farmers play experiential games contribute to improving groundwater governance? These games are an example of an innovative procedure, a policy instrument or institutional tool, which those involved in improving groundwater governance could use to understand their problems and opportunities; consider and possibly agree on norms or rules that might avoid aquifer depletion, and create shared gains that use water more productively. Institutional tools for groundwater governance could help deal with complex nexus linkages and achieve gains such as transitions to solar-powered pumping, aquifer recharge and storage to buffer against drought, and protecting and regenerating ecosystems. The concept of a groundwater governance toolbox offers a metaphor for thinking about the variety of policy instruments available and how they might be chosen, combined, and adapted to create customized toolkits to solve problems and achieve gains in specific contexts. New policies are typically layered on top of existing sets of institutions that govern relationships between people and water. This makes it crucial to understand existing knowledge and institutions and how those may interact with institutional changes. The thesis of the paper is that institutional tools need to be combined and crafted to fit contexts, including political economy constraints, opportunities, and solutions.
 
Date 2022-12-31
2023-01-17T08:14:01Z
2023-01-17T08:14:01Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Bruns, Bryan Randolph; and Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela. 2022. Combining and crafting institutional tools for groundwater governance. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2158. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136518
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127261
https://www.ifpri.org/publication/combining-and-crafting-institutional-tools-groundwater-governance
https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136518
 
Language en
 
Relation https://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/6208
https://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/5515
IFPRI Discussion Paper
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Format 54 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute