1. Groundwater governance and implementing the conservation policy
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Ali Bagheri, S. Jalal Mirnezami, C.L. de Boer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management, UT-I-ITC-PLUS, and Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
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Economics and Econometrics ,Interaction theory ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Aquifer ,Context (language use) ,Contextual interaction theory ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,01 natural sciences ,021108 energy ,Environmental planning ,Groundwater ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Rafsanjan aquifer ,Sustainable development ,geography ,Governance ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Conservation policy ,Corporate governance ,22/2 OA procedure ,Policy implementation ,ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE ,Sustainability ,Business ,Qualitative research - Abstract
The groundwater system in the Rafsanjan aquifer perpetuated sustainably for decades before 1950s; however, its groundwater resources have been overexploited in the recent decades. In this paper, we aim to investigate the water governance system to understand the reasons behind the ongoing overexploitation. Sustainability processes are considered a policy implementation problematic. As such, we employ the contextual interaction theory as a policy implementation framework to assess the groundwater governance as part of the context for the conservation policy. Data for this qualitative research were gathered from legal texts, articles, technical reports, and multiple interviews with authorities and groundwater users. The assessment results revealed that the poor quality of the governance system is central to the ineffectiveness of the conservation policies. Findings of this paper can be relied on to devise tools to underpin an appropriate context to sustain groundwater resources.
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- 2020
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