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100			_aLandy, Fredric et al _929980
245			_aCommons as demanding social constructions: The case of aquifers in rural Karnataka
260			_aInternational Journal of Rural Management
300			_a17(1), Apr, 2021: p. 27-54
520			_aIt is only recently that research on Indian groundwater has considered a perspective in terms of commons. ATCHA, an interdisciplinary project that includes among others hydrology, crop modelling and remote sensing analysis, includes such a lens in its study of the Berambadi watershed, Karnataka, India. Participant observation, semi-structured interviews and focus groups have shown that the local aquifers are not managed as a commons, and brought into light several factors hindering collective action. In this paper, these factors are reconsidered, in particular through Ostrom’s criteria. The national policy is currently trying to define a new legal framework for more sustainable management of the resource, but this new law is not known to users and it seems difficult to implement because it calls into question too many vested interests. We argue for aquifer management committees, which could be an intermediary between national policy orientations and users who are (rationally) not endorsing collective action. – Reproduced
650			_aCollective action, Commons, Groundwater, India, Irrigation, Local self-governance institutions, Natural resource management _928399
773			_aInternational Journal of Rural Management
906			_aNATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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