Gabriela Cuadrado-Quesada

Gabriela Cuadrado-Quesada
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education | UNESCO-IHE · Department of Water Governance

PhD

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Volume 16 | Issue 3 Datla, A.; Schmeier, S.; Cuadrado-Quesada, G. and Mothobi, R. 2023. Echoes of the Okavango Delta-Does the voice of the people matter? Water Alternatives 16(3): 821-848 Datla et al.: Echoes of the Okavango Delta-Does the voice of the people matter? ABSTRACT: Water governance in a shared basin features a complex array of actors op...
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Despite the recent improvements, there is still a problem of access to WASH services. This problem access is linked to poverty and inequality, which in turn cause difficulties in accessing water, thus creating a vicious cycle. This article analyses this vicious cycle using data from international organisations related to these issues. These data sh...
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Current groundwater challenges have made evident that national and international groundwater law needs a thorough revision. In this article, we explore earth system law (ESL) and rights of nature (RoN) as possible approaches to rethink groundwater law. Taking inspiration from ESL scholarship, RoN literature, Indigenous worldviews, and socio‐ecologi...
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Wastewater treatment and reuse practices are limited in India despite the known benefits of preventing water resources pollution and contributing to sustainable production and consumption systems. We identify the perceived key drivers and barriers to wastewater treatment and reuse governance in a two-round Delphi study, including literature and cas...
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This chapter examines groundwater law in Western Australia, a state that has been slow at crafting and implementing nationally agreed policies such as the National Water Initiative (NWI). This chapter also engages with the case study of South West. This case study provides a contrasting situation with Angas Bremer. In doing so it discusses how grou...
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This Chapter discusses the first country of the Global South of the book, Costa Rica. It argues that despite the reputation of Costa Rica as an environmental leader, it has long struggled with water (in)equity and (un)sustainability. The chapter introduces groundwater law and governance, where it highlights that in Costa Rica there is no defined an...
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This chapter presents the core findings of the book and how the proposed conceptualisation and theorisation of groundwater governance and groundwater law can address existing shortcomings—by examining groundwater practices while maintaining equity and sustainability as entry points, and how can the study of groundwater practices can improve the des...
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This chapter brings India to the discussion. India is the largest groundwater user in the world through the construction of millions of collective and private wells. The factors driving this expansion include poor public irrigation and drinking water delivery, new pump technologies, the flexibility and timeliness of groundwater supply, and governme...
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This chapter continues with the discussion of groundwater law and governance in Costa Rica. It problematises the figure of the Administrative Associations of Communal Aqueduct and Sewer (ASADAs for its acronym in Spanish), which are communal water boards. ASADAs serve water to approximately 60% of rural residents, which represent almost 30% of the...
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This chapter explains the theoretical discussions proposed to anchor the empirical research conducted in this book. It assesses and reflects on various bodies of literature and their interconnections. It also pays close attention to how and why each theoretical framework can contribute to better understand and explain the current state of groundwat...
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This chapter analyses The Netherlands, which is another relevant country to study groundwater related concerns due to its tradition of effective and efficient governance of water resources, building dykes, dams, and water protection. The Netherlands also has a long-standing tradition of groundwater specific governance due to the development since 1...
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This chapter discusses the water legal and policy framework of Australia. Australia was selected because it is one of the driest countries on the planet and suffers from overuse and degradation of groundwater. During the past two and a half decades, the Australian Federal Government focused on bringing about a national legal and policy transformati...
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This chapter presents a reflection on all practices of groundwater use, allocation, distribution, and protection as well as the different formal environmental, water and groundwater law, policy and regulatory instruments mentioned in the previous six chapters. It discusses, in particular, the common practices found regarding the invisible waters bu...
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Este artículo analiza la figura de las Asociaciones Administradoras de Acueductos y Alcantarillados Comunales (ASADAs) en Costa Rica desde una perspectiva jurídico-práctica. Recaba su nacimiento y evolución en el ordenamiento jurídico y analiza cómo estas figuras se crearon empíricamente y cómo han evolucionado en la práctica. El artículo reflexion...
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Groundwater governance tends to be concerned with problems of over-extraction and pollution. Groundwater excess, which is increasingly becoming a problem in many places around the world, has largely been ignored. This article discusses groundwater excess and particularly the governance approach for engaging with groundwater excess. By discussing a...
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This article examines human rights from the perspective of social constructions and as the result of historical processes. This means that human rights, as we know them today, are the result of dynamic and historical struggles. This is no different with regard to the human right to water. In particular, this article addresses the following research...
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The Pavitra Ganga policy brief is the first deliverable (D2.1) of the Water Governance work package. It brings together the learnings from successful and unsuccessful case studies from India and EU with an analysis of the Indian and EU policy and regulatory frameworks. Together with relevant stakeholders from the Central, State and local level in I...
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Reducing entitlements when groundwater is over-allocated in Australia has evidenced both challenges and successes. This chapter examines policy pathways for reducing entitlements when groundwater has been over-allocated. It explores the definitional challenges that initially hampered progress within Australia’s federated structure, before examining...
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Groundwater resources have come under increasing pressure from overuse and pollution leading to declines in both quantity and quality. As a renewable resource, the continued availability of sufficient and clean groundwater depends on its sustainable use. However, groundwater use has often been unsustainable, and in many countries—both developing an...
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Although there is considerable research on participation, there is little that combines the relationship between access to information, participation and access to justice and how these can be combined to enhance groundwater governance. Hence, this article addresses the question: How can legal frameworks that recognize the right to participation al...
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Integrated coastal management (ICM) has been considered worldwide to be a suitable approach to realizing comprehensive schemes to protect or develop coastal regions. A complex regulatory system stretching from international to local levels provides a framework for ICM practices. This raises the question whether and to what extent ICM practices have...
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The Anthropocene is an era in which humans have become the primary driver of planetary systems, not least the global hydrological cycle. This is posing significant challenges for managing the globe’s water resources, and is catalyzing a shift in the focus of water law, governance and policy research. One important feature of this shift is a burgeon...
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The goal of the study is to strengthen the analytical purchase of the term water governance and improve the utility of the concept for describing and analyzing actual water distribution processes. We argue this is necessary as most writing on water governance is more concerned with promoting particular politically inspired agendas of what water gov...
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Este artículo explora los retos de la gobernanza de las aguas subterráneas en Costa Rica y cómo estos tienden a ocasionar conflictos sociambientales. Además ilustra dichos retos a la luz de dos casos de estudio en Costa Rica, uno en Limón y otro en Guanacaste. Asimismo, analiza las principales demandas hechas por las comunidades que sufren conflict...
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This article explores the role of participation and the conditions for achieving sustainable groundwater governance and spatial planning by empirically examining cases in Australia and Costa Rica. A comparison of the two indicates that crisis can increase the likelihood of participation; participation can influence the government to develop environ...

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