Beyond engagement: Enhancing equity in collaborative water governance

EA Koebele, LE Méndez‐Barrientos… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Collaborative governance has emerged as a promising approach for addressing complex
water sustainability issues, with purported benefits from enhanced democracy to improved …

Collaborative governance and environmental justice: Disadvantaged community representation in California sustainable groundwater management

KB Dobbin, M Lubell - Policy Studies Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A consistent critique of the theory and empirical research on collaborative governance is a
lack of conceptualization and analysis of the role of political power and inequality. Our paper …

Farmer participation and institutional capture in common-pool resource governance reforms. The case of groundwater management in California

LE Méndez-Barrientos, A DeVincentis… - Society & Natural …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Farmers are often critically important to the success of common-pool resource governance
reforms. Nevertheless, their participation in these off-farm reform processes has received …

Sustainable groundwater management in California: A grand experiment in environmental governance

M Lubell, W Blomquist, L Beutler - Society & Natural Resources, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract California's 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is a grand policy
experiment that provides an unprecedented opportunity to analyze five core concepts in …

[BUCH][B] Scales of sustainable agricultural water management

AJ DeVincentis - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Water resources are simultaneously intrinsic to global health and prosperity while being
threatened by anthropogenic pressures associated with the population growth that they …

Evaluating California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: The first five years of governance and planning

WD Leach, BY An, SY Tang - JAWRA Journal of the American …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract California's landmark 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)
requires local officials to form new Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) and to write …

[HTML][HTML] California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA): too little, too late and too slow? Jan 15 Posted by Linda Mendez-Barrientos in Water policies

L Mendez-Barrientos, D Bostic - water-alternatives.org
California has one of the highest water stress levels in the world (FAO and UN Water, 2021).
Particularly, the California Central Valley Aquifer System is one of the three groundwater …

[PDF][PDF] MANAGING BASIN SECURITY: UNDERSTANDING THE KEY ORGANIZATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE FACTORS THAT IMPACT SGMA IMPLEMENTATION

C Egan - csus.edu
California's surface and groundwater are inherently linked. Each year, municipal,
environmental, and agricultural water users will use surface and groundwater to meet their …