Groundwater and Climate Change – Multi-level Law and Policy Perspectives – Authors’ Workshop

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 LAW

Prof. Joyeeta Gupta & Kirstin Conti, University of Amsterdam
Lead Discussant: Dr Andrew Allan, University of Dundee

II. CLIMATE CHANGE, GROUNDWATER AND THE LAW – EXPLORING THE CONNECTIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Prof. Michael Kidd, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Lead Discussants: Dr Thoko Kaime, Essex University & Dr Engobo Emeseh, Aberystwyth University

III. ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN GROUNDWATER LAW – RECENT REFORMS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA AND ENGLAND AND WALES

Mr Birsha Ohdedar, SOAS
Lead Discussants: Mr Bob Harris, University of Sheffield & Dr Andrea Keessen, University of Utrecht

IV. HIMALAYAN GLACIERS, CHANGING SURFACE WATER REGIMES AND GROUNDWATER RESOURCES: CONNECTING THE DOTS

Dr Anjal Prakash & Arun B Shrestha, ICIMOD, Kathmandu
Lead Discussant: Prof. Adebayo J. Adeloye, Heriot-Watt University

V. IDENTIFYING THE LEGAL NEXUS BETWEEN FORESTS AND WATERSHEDS: FIRST STEPS TO CRAFTING A PATHWAY TO INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT IN CLIMATE CHANGE LAW

Dr Feja Lesniewska, SOAS
Lead Discussant: Dr Andrew Allan, University of Dundee

VI. CLIMATE CHANGE CONSIDERATIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL GROUNDWATER LAW

Ms Raya Marina Stephan, Water Law Expert/International Consultant
Lead Discussants: Dr Rebecca Bates, Queen Mary University of London & Dr Owen McIntyre, University College Cork

VII. LEGAL PROTECTION FOR ECOLOGICALLY SIGNIFICANT GROUNDWATERS UNDER EU LAW IN THE LIGHT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Dr Owen McIntyre, University College Cork
Lead Discussants: Ms Ariella D’Andrea, Rome & Prof. Philippe Cullet, SOAS

VIII. ASSESSING INDIA’S DRIP-IRRIGATION BOOM: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS IN RAJASTHAN

Prof. Trevor Birkenholtz, University of Illinois
Lead Discussants: Prof. Peter Mollinga, SOAS & Prof. Ian Holman, Cranfield

IX. PRIVATE GROUNDWATER USE IN A CONTEXT OF STATE-LED IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF NORTH AFRICA

Dr Marcel Kuper, Hichem Amichi and Pierre-Louis Mayaux
Lead Discussants: Prof. Tony Allan, SOAS & Prof. Peter Mollinga, SOAS

X. REGULATING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND GROUNDWATER: THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE

Ms Lovleen Bhullar, Philippe Cullet & Sujith Koonan, SOAS
Lead Discussants: Prof. Trevor Birkenholtz, University of Illinois & Dr Engobo Emeseh, Aberystwyth University