Toward an Analytical Framework for the Governance of Natural Resources : The Case of Groundwater
The issue of groundwater management challenges the paradigm along which the concept of good governance has developed since the 1990s. We show that in contexts involving multiple power structures, the exploitation of natural resources requires hybri...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/230521487592122416/The-case-of-groundwater http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26195 |
| Summary: | The issue of groundwater management
challenges the paradigm along which the concept of good
governance has developed since the 1990s. We show that in
contexts involving multiple power structures, the
exploitation of natural resources requires hybrid modes of
governance that combine the coordination of individual
actions imposed or promoted by the State with forms of
collective action in the public or community interest.
Original forms of coordination between these different modes
most often remain on the drawing board. However, the failure
in the field of purely market-based or purely public
institutional arrangements makes them necessary. Taking the
Azraq aquifer in Jordan as an example, we show how local
management and negotiated rules of a “commons” type makes it
possible to mutually strengthen both collective and public
action through the reciprocal recognition of their
legitimacy and of their failures or difficulties. |
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