I am looking for the role of knowledge and information in informing decision making by communities and farmer's choices about surface and ground water management.
We are exploring institutional design for governing water commons, building rules and regulations for water governance, evolving systems for conjunctive use of water, role of information in informing community choices, and crop choices based on changing understanding of variability in resource availability.
Suggestions or publications on co-creating local knowledge for better collective action and local regulation leading to enhanced equity and sustainability as well as improve management of a water commons would be helpful.
Looks like a very interesting project. Concepts you could consider are community modeling (https://eclass.duth.gr/modules/document/file.php/TMB262/22.pdf), Incentive design for participation, web-based collection and sharing of information, and deliberative valuation (Article Deliberative valuation without prices: A multiattribute prio...
)Other readings that will be helpful are listed below:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26269755?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/17/4591/
Article Positive externalities, knowledge exchange and corporate far...
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2014.00026/full
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/06/10/1414374112
Article Crossing cultural boundaries: Integrating Indigenous water k...
In addition to Timothys's answer, this UK site is informative about a legislative approach in the UK. Other countries have similar approaches.
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/engineer/facts/12-027.htm
Also:
https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/envir/water_en
http://www.sustainabletable.org/267/water-quality
There is a great deal more information in the public domain.
There are different approches of relying on water challenges, access to drinking water, sanitation and employment opportunities through economic growth
Thank you Timothy O Randhir , John Machell and Mohsin J. Nasir for your responses. I came across an interesting paper titled - The influence of information and communication technologies on public participation in urban water governance: A review of place-based research by Farhad Mukhtarova, Carel Dieperinka & Peter Driessena
https://ac.els-cdn.com/S146290111830368X/1-s2.0-S146290111830368X-main.pdf?_tid=099a2bf3-1db1-4972-9f5f-60a78789b407&acdnat=1537778845_de93361e7ac3620eb5469b6df67d2123
Also I am looking for innovative dashboards that can help communities in realisation of the issue as well as encouraging them take action.
Subrat
Well,
Can benefit from the attached pdf. Water Quality And Pollution Control Handbook, Compiled by James E. Hairston, Extension Water Quality Scientist Assisted by Leigh Stribling, Technical Writer.
Sincerely
Mr. Singh,
One of the best guides for collaborative learning in complex water issues is the book by Oregon State University environmental conflict management scholars, Daniels and Walker (2001) who use adult education, systems-thinking and negotiation in a collaborative learning problem solving method. Along with multicultural perspectives, the U.S. Natural Resource Conservation Service, offers incentives to improve soil conservation and at source filtration studies available for free.
A wonderful education source out of University of California Davis has a groundwater links that are very useful to add to the body of knowledge, and point you in an effective way toward management of groundwater quality and conservation.
http://groundwater.ucdavis.edu/links_other/
Source:
Daniels, S.E. and G.B. Walker. 2001. Working through environmental conflict: The collaborative learning approach. Westport CT: Praeger Publishers.
Hope this helps.
Pat Elton