Sustainable groundwater management in France and Australia: setting extraction limits, allocating rights and reallocation

Cameron Holley (1) , Jean-Daniel Rinaudo (2, 3) , Steve Barnett (4) , Marielle Montginoul (5)

1 UNSW - University of New South Wales [Sydney]
2 BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
3 UM - Université de Montpellier
4 Water and Natural Resources
5 UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages

This chapter briefly introduces the main policy developments from both France and Australia regarding groundwater management and their particular approach to setting caps, allocating rights and allowing reallocations. It then presents the objectives of the book and explores the book's contributions under four key themes, namely groundwater and policy approaches in France and Australia, capping water use and defining sustainable abstraction limits, reducing entitlements to sustainable limits, and comparisons between France, Australia and other international groundwater developments.

Domaines: Environnement et Société; Hydrologie; Géologie appliquée

Cameron Holley, Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, Steve Barnett, Marielle Montginoul. Sustainable groundwater management in France and Australia: setting extraction limits, allocating rights and reallocation. Sustainable groundwater management: a comparative analysis of French and Australian policies and implications to other countries, pp.1-15, 2020, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-32766-8_1⟩. ⟨hal-02531774⟩