Groundwater Policy and Governance

June, 2012
Robert G. Varady
Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
Frank van Weert
GRAC (International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre)
Sharon B. Megdal
Water Resources Research Center (WRRC)
Andrea Gerlak
Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
Christine Abdalla Iskandar
International Hydrological Programme, UNESCO
Lily House-Peters
Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
FAO/Global Environmental Facility, Emily Dellinger McGovern ed., 39 pp., The University of Arizona, June, 2012
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Groundwater Policy and Governance (pdf)

Governance is an immense conceptual construct, encompassing a suite of precepts, principles, ideas, theories, contexts, objectives, and practices. The FAO/ GEF project “Groundwater Governance: A Global Framework for Country Action” is a comprehensive attempt to understand and articulate this notion in its entirety—as applied to the particular subject of groundwater.