The social drivers of cooperation in groundwater management and implications for sustainability

John Asprilla-Echeverria

doi:10.1016/j.gsd.2021.100668

The social drivers of cooperation in groundwater management and implications for sustainability

John Asprilla-Echeverria^*

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The present article develops a methodical literature review on the social and behavioral dimensions in common-pool resources (CPR) cooperation, especially in groundwater management. It is built upon the revision of ninety-five articles published in peer-reviewed journals related to water, collective goods, common-pool resources, and natural resources economics. The time span covers the published books and articles from 1964 until 2018 and makes special reference to Hume (1898) explanations on how complicated the maintenance of resources used in common is. If sustainability in CPR management programs is pursued, drivers for cooperation should be understood to make it manageable and operationalizable. Suggestions are made in terms of the classification of the drivers for cooperation, namely instruments, conditions, components/strategies, and assumptions. Apart from presenting the literature reviewed, the implications for CPR sustainability are discussed. Aquifers present different hydrogeological characteristics, subject to complex social extraction decisions and physical changing circumstances such as climate change and climate variability. Groundwater conservation and experimental settings should not only reflect the complex physical interrelated elements, but the complex social institutions and rules governing the extraction patterns.

Original language	English
Article number	100668
Number of pages	21
Journal	Groundwater for Sustainable Development
Volume	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2021.100668
Publication status	Published - Nov 2021

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I am indebted to Professors Bart van Hoof and Wim Hafkamp for encouragement, comments and suggestions in preparing this article. This article would not have been possible without the support provided by research scholarship grant number 789-2017, from the National Science and Technology Department of Colombia.The understanding of the complexities of cooperative behavior would support the need to persist on the sustainability of aquifer resources and another CPR. In CPR management coordination efforts demanded among individuals belonging to the resource governance structure; if cooperative attitudes are achieved in managing the CPR, it does not entail that cooperation would last endlessly. So, reaching cooperation and keeping it for a long time, requires that the proper incentives need to be devised and implemented in a collective action setting instead of a top-down regulation setting.

Funding Information:
I am indebted to Professors Bart van Hoof and Wim Hafkamp for encouragement, comments and suggestions in preparing this article. This article would not have been possible without the support provided by research scholarship grant number 789-2017 , from the National Science and Technology Department of Colombia .

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