Institutional Issues around Agricultural Land-Use Control for Groundwater Conservation—A Long-Term Perspective
Key aspects of policy development and implementation for the control of agricultural land use to conserve groundwater are overviewed. This is one of today’s greatest environmental challenges and one on which only limited progress has been made internationally. For this purpose, the objectives of agr...
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| description | Key aspects of policy development and implementation for the control of agricultural land use to conserve groundwater are overviewed. This is one of today’s greatest environmental challenges and one on which only limited progress has been made internationally. For this purpose, the objectives of agricultural land-use control in defined areas are either to reduce diffuse pollution of groundwater and/or to regulate excessive abstraction for crop irrigation to sustain groundwater resources. Progress on both of these fronts has been assessed from the published work, and the lessons learnt are summarised for global application. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1bef4f853786413ab63aede05b62659d2023-11-22T11:25:31ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412021-09-011317241710.3390/w13172417Institutional Issues around Agricultural Land-Use Control for Groundwater Conservation—A Long-Term PerspectiveStephen Foster0John Chilton1Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London WC1E-6BT, UKInternational Association of Hydrogeologists, Reading RG8-6BJ, UKKey aspects of policy development and implementation for the control of agricultural land use to conserve groundwater are overviewed. This is one of today’s greatest environmental challenges and one on which only limited progress has been made internationally. For this purpose, the objectives of agricultural land-use control in defined areas are either to reduce diffuse pollution of groundwater and/or to regulate excessive abstraction for crop irrigation to sustain groundwater resources. Progress on both of these fronts has been assessed from the published work, and the lessons learnt are summarised for global application.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/17/2417groundwater managementgroundwater protectionagricultural land usediffuse agricultural pollutiongroundwater over-exploitation |
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| title | Institutional Issues around Agricultural Land-Use Control for Groundwater Conservation—A Long-Term Perspective |
| title_full | Institutional Issues around Agricultural Land-Use Control for Groundwater Conservation—A Long-Term Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Institutional Issues around Agricultural Land-Use Control for Groundwater Conservation—A Long-Term Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Institutional Issues around Agricultural Land-Use Control for Groundwater Conservation—A Long-Term Perspective |
| title_short | Institutional Issues around Agricultural Land-Use Control for Groundwater Conservation—A Long-Term Perspective |
| title_sort | institutional issues around agricultural land use control for groundwater conservation a long term perspective |
| topic | groundwater management groundwater protection agricultural land use diffuse agricultural pollution groundwater over-exploitation |
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