Lessons to be learned from groundwater trading in Australia and the United States
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2016
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Wheeler, S.A.
Schoengold, K.
Bjornlund, H.
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Jakeman, A.J.
Barreteau, O.
Hunt, R.J.
Rinaudo, J.-D.
Ross, A.
Barreteau, O.
Hunt, R.J.
Rinaudo, J.-D.
Ross, A.
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Integrated groundwater management: concepts, approaches and challenges, 2016 / Jakeman, A.J., Barreteau, O., Hunt, R.J., Rinaudo, J.-D., Ross, A. (ed./s), Ch.20, pp.493-517
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Sarah Ann Wheeler, Karina Schoengold, and Henning Bjornlund
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This chapter provides an overview of the issues and challenges facing policy makers intending to establish groundwater markets. It studies in detail two developed countries that have introduced groundwater trading and have some experience in its implementation-Australia and the United States of America- and draws out lessons from these countries that need to be considered for the development of groundwater markets around the world. The key lessons that this chapter stresses are: the importance of establishing institutions and regulations; investing in high quality economic and scientific research; that opportunities arise from crises; and that social concerns are not always the most important considerations to be aware of for efficient and effective groundwater markets.
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016. This book is published with open access at SpringerLink.com Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.