The Law, Environment and Development Centre (LEDC) organised an Authors’ Workshop on Groundwater and Climate Change – Multi-level Law and Policy Perspectives on 11 December 2015 at SOAS.
The workshop brought together authors of papers to be submitted for a special issue of Water International and discussants to debate papers arising from earlier workshops organised under the 2013-2015 partnership project on Climate Change and Groundwater Management: An Indian Law and Society Comparative Study jointly run by School of Law, SOAS – University of London and the National Law University, Delhi in the context of the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI).
The workshop was divided in sessions focusing on draft papers:
I. LEGAL PLURALISM IN GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE & GROUNDWATER LAWProf. Joyeeta Gupta & Kirstin Conti, University of Amsterdam |
II. CLIMATE CHANGE, GROUNDWATER AND THE LAW – EXPLORING THE CONNECTIONS IN SOUTH AFRICAProf. Michael Kidd, University of KwaZulu-Natal |
III. ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN GROUNDWATER LAW – RECENT REFORMS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA AND ENGLAND AND WALESMr Birsha Ohdedar, SOAS |
IV. HIMALAYAN GLACIERS, CHANGING SURFACE WATER REGIMES AND GROUNDWATER RESOURCES: CONNECTING THE DOTSDr Anjal Prakash & Arun B Shrestha, ICIMOD, Kathmandu |
V. IDENTIFYING THE LEGAL NEXUS BETWEEN FORESTS AND WATERSHEDS: FIRST STEPS TO CRAFTING A PATHWAY TO INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT IN CLIMATE CHANGE LAWDr Feja Lesniewska, SOAS |
VI. CLIMATE CHANGE CONSIDERATIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL GROUNDWATER LAWMs Raya Marina Stephan, Water Law Expert/International Consultant |
VII. LEGAL PROTECTION FOR ECOLOGICALLY SIGNIFICANT GROUNDWATERS UNDER EU LAW IN THE LIGHT OF CLIMATE CHANGEDr Owen McIntyre, University College Cork |
VIII. ASSESSING INDIA’S DRIP-IRRIGATION BOOM: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS IN RAJASTHANProf. Trevor Birkenholtz, University of Illinois |
IX. PRIVATE GROUNDWATER USE IN A CONTEXT OF STATE-LED IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF NORTH AFRICADr Marcel Kuper, Hichem Amichi and Pierre-Louis Mayaux |
X. REGULATING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND GROUNDWATER: THE INDIAN EXPERIENCEMs Lovleen Bhullar, Philippe Cullet & Sujith Koonan, SOAS |