Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rouillard, Josselin, author.

Contributor:

Babbitt, Christina.

Challies, Edward.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Resource allocation.

Water in agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : IWA Publishing, 2022.

Summary:

The book brings together a range of leading scholars and practitioners to compile an international account of water allocation policies supporting a transition to sustainable water use in regions where agriculture is the dominant water use.

Contents:

Cover

Content

About the Editors

Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 TRANSITIONING AWAY FROM OPEN ACCESS IN THE USE OF WATER RESOURCES

1.1.1 The need to regulate water use

1.1.2 Water allocation as a strategy to regulate water use

1.1.3 Regulating agricultural water use through allocation policies

1.1.4 Challenges of establishing allocation policies in agricultural basins

1.2 OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE OF THE BOOK

1.3 KEY THEMATIC AREAS OF THE BOOK

1.3.1 The institutional framework

1.3.2 Setting allocation limits

1.3.3 Allocation rules

1.3.4 Compliance and enforcement

1.3.5 Performance of allocation regimes

1.4 STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK

REFERENCES

Chapter 2: The politics of groundwater allocation and the transition from open access

2.1 INTRODUCTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF ESTABLISHING GROUNDWATER ALLOCATIONS

2.2 OPPORTUNITIES AND DIFFICULTIES IN ALLOCATING GROUNDWATER

2.2.1 Opportunities

2.2.2 Difficulties

2.3 MANAGING THE TRANSITION TO GROUNDWATER ALLOCATIONS

2.3.1 Examples of transitions away from open access

2.3.2 Recommended considerations for the transition process

2.3.2.1 Measure and report extractions

2.3.2.2 Developing allocations takes time

in an emergency, consider buyouts

2.3.2.3 Establish and maintain incentives to complete the transition

2.3.2.4 Involve as many users as possible

2.3.2.5 Allow carry-over pumping or multi-year allocations

2.3.2.6 Make production tradeable

2.3.2.7 Develop allocations as shares rather than fixed quantities

2.3.2.8 Set an initial cap

2.3.2.9 Update data on groundwater use and basin conditions frequently and transparently and use this data to adapt production limits periodically as needed, until what is perceived to be sustainable is reached.

2.4 CONCLUSIONS: CONTEXT AND VARIATION IN GROUNDWATER ALLOCATION DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 3: Allocations and legal trends in the 21st century

3.1 INTRODUCTION

3.2 THE GLOBAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE REGIMES FOR ALLOCATING WATER

3.2.1 Adoption of permitting and planning systems across more nations

3.2.2 Application of permitting and planning regimes to more water sources

3.2.3 Increasing complexity of permitting and planning

3.2.4 Implementation challenges to permitting and planning systems

3.3 ACCESS TO WATER FOR MORE WATER USERS, AND PARTICIPATION BY MORE STAKEHOLDERS

3.3.1 Human right to water

3.3.2 Water for environmental purposes

3.3.3 Transferring allocated water

3.3.4 Water for other consumptive users

3.3.5 Implementation challenges to facilitating access

3.3.6 More diverse participants in processes that influence allocations

3.4 REFLECTIONS AND CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Chapter 4: Indigenous water and Mother Earth

4.1 INTRODUCTION

4.2 ENSURING THE PLACE OF INDIGENOUS WATER RIGHTS: PARALLELISM AND PLURALISM

4.2.1 Inherent Indigenous water law

4.2.2 Sui Generis Indigenous rights

4.3 INDIGENOUS WATER LAW IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

4.3.1 Indigenous water rights

4.3.2 Indigenous water rights on reserve

4.3.3 Indigenous water rights and treaties

4.3.4 Indigenous groundwater rights

4.4 MOTHER EARTH, RELATIONS, AND BUEN VIVIR

4.5 RIGHTS OF NATURE

4.5.1 Constitutional protection for Mother Earth

4.5.2 River rights

4.6 UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Chapter 5: Allocations and environmental flows

5.1 INTRODUCTION

5.2 PLANNING AND DEFINING ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS: EMERGING SCIENCE AND RECOMMENDED APPROACHES

5.2.1 Increased focus on ecological functions.

5.2.2 Recognizing connections between surface and groundwater management

5.2.3 Planning in an inclusive, consistent, structured, and transparent manner

5.3 IMPLEMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS: TOOLS AND APPROACHES

5.3.1 Ecosystem water budgets

5.3.2 Innovative governance structure of water allocation

5.3.3 Holistic management by reducing silos between programs

5.4 CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 6: Economics and water allocation reform

6.1 INTRODUCTION

6.2 ECONOMIC ISSUES IN WATER ALLOCATION REFORM

6.2.1 Reforming allocation regimes results in large transaction costs

6.2.2 Water allocation reforms require compromises between economic efficiency, environmental performance, and social justice

6.2.3 Reallocations may result in externalities, which are poorly accounted for in conventional water policy

6.2.4 Reallocations must account for large uncertainties intrinsic to complex social-ecological systems

6.3 A ROBUST BASIS FOR ECONOMICALLY-SOUND WATER ALLOCATION REFORM

6.4 THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS IN REFORMING AGRICULTURAL WATER ALLOCATIONS

6.4.1 Defining economic instruments

6.4.2 Designing appropriate economic instruments to support water allocation reforms

6.4.3 Economic instruments and water allocation reforms: some examples

6.5 THE WAY FORWARD: ACTIONABLE SCIENCE FOR INFORMED (RE)ALLOCATIONS

Chapter 7: England and Wales: countering 'unsustainable abstraction' with the catchment based approach

7.1 INTRODUCTION

7.2 THE OVERARCHING INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

7.2.1 The nature of water rights

7.2.2 Current legal and policy context

7.2.3 Controlling access to water: a catchment based approach

7.2.4 Permitting requirements

7.2.5 Collaborative programmes and decision-making

7.3 DEFINING THE AVAILABLE RESOURCE POOL.

7.3.1 Setting and meeting the volumetric cap in catchments

7.4 DEFINING ALLOCATION AND RE-ALLOCATION RULES

7.5 MONITORING AND COMPLIANCE

7.5.1 Hydrological monitoring

7.5.2 Enforcement and ensuring compliance

7.6 THE BROADER POLICY INSTRUMENT MIX

7.6.1 Drought policy

7.6.2 Other regulatory instruments

7.6.3 Economic instruments

7.7 ASSESSING PERFORMANCE

7.7.1 Environmental effectiveness

7.7.2 Economic efficiency

7.7.3 Social equity

7.7.4 Climate resilience

7.8 CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 8: Water allocation in Spain. Legal framework, instruments and emerging debates

8.1 INTRODUCTION

8.2 THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR WATER

8.2.1 The double nature of water rights

8.2.2 Allocation of water rights

8.3 WATER ALLOCATION IN PRACTICE. RULES AND PROCESSES

8.3.1 The overallocation problem

8.3.2 Groundwater overexploitation

8.3.3 Environmental flows

8.3.4 Water exchanges

8.4 CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 9: Managing a common resource in agriculture: an overview of the French nested water allocation system

9.1 INTRODUCTION

9.2 LEGAL AND POLICY BACKGROUND

9.2.1 The nature of water rights

9.2.2 Water management planning instruments

9.2.3 The permitting regime

9.3 ENVIRONMENTAL BOTTOM LINES

9.3.1 Minimum flows

9.3.2 Management targets

9.3.3 Alert and crisis flows

9.4 DEFINING THE ALLOCABLE RESOURCE POOL

9.5 ALLOCATION RULES

9.5.1 Volumetric allocations between sectors

9.5.2 Allocating and reallocating water in agriculture

9.5.2.1 Allocation between existing claimants

9.5.2.2 Incorporating prospective claimants

9.5.3 Drought restrictions

9.6 COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT

9.7 THE BROADER POLICY INSTRUMENT MIX

9.8 CONCLUSION

Chapter 10: Turkey's water allocation regime under institutional change

10.1 INTRODUCTION.

10.2 THE OVERARCHING INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

10.2.1 Legal and policy background

10.2.2 The nature of water rights

10.2.3 Controlling access to water and collaborative decision-making

10.3 DEFINING THE AVAILABLE RESOURCE POOL

10.4 ALLOCATION AND REALLOCATION RULES

10.4.1 Approach for allocating water between sectors

10.4.2 Economic and social performance of the current approach

10.5 MONITORING AND COMPLIANCE

10.6 THE BROADER POLICY INSTRUMENT MIX

10.6.1 Drought policy

10.6.2 Economic instruments

10.6.3 Awareness-raising

10.7 CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 11: Water allocation in Aotearoa New Zealand: societal values and ecological bottom lines

11.1 INTRODUCTION

11.2 THE OVERARCHING POLICY FRAMEWORK

11.2.1 Constitutional and legal framework

11.2.2 RMA and regional councils

11.2.3 Controlling access to water

11.2.4 The nature of water rights

11.3 DEFINING THE AVAILABLE RESOURCE POOL

11.4 ALLOCATION AND REALLOCATION RULES

11.5 MONITORING AND COMPLIANCE

11.5.1 Monitoring of water abstraction

11.5.2 Compliance and enforcement

11.6 THE WIDER POLICY CONTEXT

11.6.1 Devolved management and collaborative governance

11.6.2 Maori rights and interests

11.6.3 Land use change and water quality

11.6.4 Climate change and hazards

11.7 CONCLUSION

Chapter 12: Groundwater allocation in New South Wales, Australia

12.1 INTRODUCTION

12.2 THE OVERARCHING INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

12.2.1 Water management as a state responsibility with federal engagements

12.2.2 Historical groundwater regulation in New south Wales

12.2.3 Overview of current regulatory framework in NSW

12.3 DEFINING THE AVAILABLE RESOURCE

12.4 DEFINING ALLOCATION AND REALLOCATION RULES

12.5 METERING, COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING

12.6 THE BROADER POLICY-REGULATORY MIX.

12.7 DISCUSSION: STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES.

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OCLC:

1388526434