Caring for groundwater: How care can expand and transform groundwater governance

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cg.authorship.typesNot CGIAR international instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Amsterdamen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Montpellieren
cg.contributor.affiliationCenter for Research in Applied Economics for Developmenten
cg.contributor.affiliationLancaster Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationAdvanced Centre for Water resources Development and Managementen
cg.contributor.affiliationiES Institute for Environmental Sciencesen
cg.contributor.affiliationInstitut National d'Aménagement et d'Urbanismeen
cg.contributor.affiliationIHE Delft Institute for Water Educationen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversità della Calabriaen
cg.contributor.affiliationSociety for Promoting Participative Eco-system Managementen
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Unionen
cg.contributor.donorFrench Institute of Advanced Studiesen
cg.contributor.donorFuture Earth and the Water and Development Partnership Programmeen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeNEXUS Gains
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1350en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Natural Resources and Resilience Unit
cg.identifier.publicationRankB
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1875-0281en
cg.issue1en
cg.journalInternational Journal of the Commonsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigation
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversity
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.volume18en
dc.contributor.authorZwarteveen, Margreeten
dc.contributor.authorDomínguez-Guzmán, Carolinaen
dc.contributor.authorKuper, Marcelen
dc.contributor.authorSaidani, Amineen
dc.contributor.authorKemerink-Seyoum, Jeltsjeen
dc.contributor.authorCleaver, Francesen
dc.contributor.authorKulkarni, Himanshuen
dc.contributor.authorBossenbroek, Lisaen
dc.contributor.authorFtouhi, Hinden
dc.contributor.authorVerzijl, Andresen
dc.contributor.authorAslekar, Umaen
dc.contributor.authorKadiri, Zakariaen
dc.contributor.authorChitata, Tavengwaen
dc.contributor.authorLeonardelli, Ireneen
dc.contributor.authorKulkarni, Seemaen
dc.contributor.authorBhat, Snehaen
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-13T16:46:09Zen
dc.date.available2024-09-13T16:46:09Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/152222
dc.titleCaring for groundwater: How care can expand and transform groundwater governanceen
dcterms.abstractEfforts to measure and regulate groundwaters and irrigators are notoriously ineffective. The starting point of this article, therefore, is to question the continued faith in techno-managerial solutions to groundwater depletion. We discuss the potential of the conceptual vocabulary of ‘care’ to complement, refresh and expand ways of talking about and doing groundwater governance. Mobilizing a diverse range of examples from places where pressures on aquifers are particularly acute, we do this by exploring what care entails in everyday practices of groundwater use and management. We show that foregrounding care nuances and sometimes challenges stories of users unavoidably depleting aquifers when given the chance and means to do so. Irrigators may display concern about the longer-term sustainability of the aquifers on which their livelihoods depend, even when their own pumping practices are unsustainable. In spite of pressures to intensify and individualize, farmers sometimes do hold on to or creatively develop collective rules to fairly share groundwater and use it sustainably, complementing strategies to make do with what is available with investments in conservation and recharge. Attention to care, moreover, highlights the ongoing processes of tinkering that governing groundwater always entails. The ability to tinker hinges on intimate and often embodied knowledge of a watery place. Accepting the care involved in governing groundwater, our analysis therefore concludes, prompts a re-consideration of what is and who has water expertise, with important implications for the role of ‘outside’ experts. More than a new theory, we propose embracing care as an analytical sensibility, with the study of practices of care serving as one promising way to widen the conceptual and political space for understanding and doing human-groundwater relations.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2024-04-26
dcterms.bibliographicCitationZwarteveen, Margreet; Domínguez-Guzmán, Carolina; Kuper, Marcel; Saidani, Amine; Kemerink-Seyoum, Jeltsje; Cleaver, Frances; et al. 2024. Caring for groundwater: How care can expand and transform groundwater governance. International Journal of the Commons 18(1): 384–396. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1350en
dcterms.extentp. 384–396en
dcterms.issued2024-04
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherUbiquity Pressen
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136518en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1347en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1316en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1317en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1363en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1350en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1313en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1323en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1322en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1336en
dcterms.relationhttps://thecommonsjournal.org/collections/governgroundwateren
dcterms.subjectaquifersen
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.subjectgroundwateren
dcterms.subjectgroundwater depletionen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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