Groundwater is an increasingly vital common pool resource for water supply, irrigation, and ecosystems, but difficult to govern. While there are many institutional tools for governing groundwater, there are no panaceas, and successes are rare. Effective groundwater governance requires that key stakeholders have combinations of knowledge, motivation, and agency to act together effectively. This CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains webinar will share results from research on groundwater governance, including findings from a recent special issue of the International Journal of the Commons.
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Speakers
- Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): Nexus Gains research on groundwater governance; Knowledge, motivation, and agency: A framework for groundwater governance
- Richu Sanil, Senior Project Manager, Foundation for Ecological Security: Groundwater games and other tools: Combining approaches for systemic change in groundwater governance
- Margreet Zwarteveen, Professor of Water Governance, IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education: How care can expand and transform groundwater governance
- Bryan Bruns, Independent Researcher and Consultant, Greenbelt, Maryland USA: Governing aquifer storage for nexus gains: Solarizing irrigation, negotiating recharge, and including ecosystems
Panelists
- Hagar ElDidi, Senior Research Analyst, International Food Policy Research Institute
- Alvar Closas, International Consultant, Bogotá, Colombia