政策重于实践:撒哈拉以南非洲地下水治理研究综述

Chris de Bont, Lowe Börjeson
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在撒哈拉以南非洲,地下水日益被视为农业和家庭供水的关键。以气候变化和人口增长为由,为确保粮食安全,人们特别明显地转向推广地下水灌溉。资源使用量的增加无疑会带来新的管理问题,世界其他地区地下水的过度开采就是一个有力的警示。本文概述了当前有关撒哈拉以南非洲地下水治理的文献。我们采用批判性水治理视角,分析了地下水治理的框架,使用了哪些术语、类别和测量方法来描述和评估地下水治理,以及考虑了哪些人的观点。我们还评估了撒哈拉以南非洲国家是否以平衡的方式开展了地下水治理研究。我们发现,与其他地方相比,撒哈拉以南非洲的地下水治理研究更加忽视那些实际接触到地下水资源的人的声音和观点。取而代之的是正规的、技术性的地下水专家的观点,他们的重点是需要更多的水文地质数据和正规的政策。虽然现有文献的贡献很有价值,但目前观点上的偏差要求其他人加入地下水治理领域,用用户和其他日常处理地下水管理的人的观点和方法来补充目前的概念和方法。我们认为,地下水使用者的实际治理经验、因地制宜的解决方案和知识可以为整个非洲大陆制定有效、可持续和公平的地下水治理进程提供重要的补充观点和见解。
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Policy Over Practice: A Review of Groundwater Governance Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
Groundwater is increasingly seen as crucial to both agricultural and domestic water supply in sub-Saharan Africa. Citing climate change and growing populations, there is especially a notable shift towards promoting groundwater for irrigation to ensure food security. Increased use of the resource will undoubtedly be accompanied with new questions of governance, with groundwater overexploitation in other parts of the world functioning as a strong cautionary tale. This article provides an overview of the current groundwater governance literature on sub-Saharan Africa. Using a critical water governance lens we analyse how groundwater governance is framed, what terms, categories, and measurements are used to describe and assess groundwater governance, and whose perspectives are considered. We also assess whether groundwater governance research has taken place across sub-Saharan African countries in a balanced way. We find that groundwater governance research in sub-Saharan Africa, even more so than elsewhere, ignores the voices and perspectives of those physically encountering the resource. Instead, it is dominated by the views of formal, technical groundwater experts focusing on the need for more hydrogeological data and formal policies. While the existing contributions to the literature are valuable, the current bias in perspectives calls for others to join the field of groundwater governance and to supplement current conceptualisations and approaches with those of users and others dealing with groundwater management on a daily basis. We argue that groundwater users’ practical governance experiences, locally adapted solutions and knowledges, can add important complementary perspectives and insights towards crafting effective, sustainable and equitable groundwater governance processes across the continent.
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