Controlling Groundwater Exploitation Through Economic Instruments: Current Practices, Challenges and Innovative Approaches

摘要: Groundwater can be considered as a common-pool resource, is often overexploited and, result, there are growing management pressures. This chapter starts with broad presentation of the range economic instruments that used for groundwater management, considering current practices and innovative approaches inspired from literature on Common Pool Resources management. It then goes detailed allocation policies implemented in France, High Plains aquifer USA, Chile. The concludes discussion social political difficulties associated implementing