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Facing Water Scarcity in the Mediterranean

Pressure on water resources has reached critical levels in many countries in the Mediterranean Basin. Sophisticated water mobilization strategies have been implemented but physical, financial and envi...

Overextraction of Groundwater Resources: What Are The Solutions?

The amount of water extracted from aquifers worldwide has increased threefold in the past fifty years, leading to an aggravated overdraft of these common resources. This “pumping race” brings about ma...

Toward an Analytical Framework for the Governance of Natural Resources: The Case of Groundwater

The issue of groundwater management challenges the paradigm along which the concept of good governance has developed since the 1990s. We show that in contexts involving multiple power structures, the...

Commons: Towards a New Narrative on Development Policies and Practices?

Narratives feed into development policies. They are the outcome of complex interactions between political and economic contexts as well as scientific findings and practices. Narratives are a way to bu...

DNDi, a Distinctive Illustration of Commons in the Area of Public Health

Following many years of structural adjustment programmes, the last decades of the 20th century saw drastic reductions in the public health resources of developing countries. The failures of the libera...

Innovation towards the Access to Essential Therapeutic Products

Almost a billion people (one person out of nine) suffer from malnutrition and almost two billion people do not have access to essential medical products. In light of this urgency, some initiatives div...

Renewing Energy Access Approaches

When it comes to energy access projects (electrificationand thermal energy), approaches introducing a commons perspective can be distinguished by the fact that users play anactive role. This role is c...

Acting together for the Sustainable Use of Water in Agriculture

Pressure on groundwater, particularly by agriculture, is increasing throughout the world. This leads to pumping races from which the poorest farmers are rapidly excluded. This paper presents the solut...

Palestinian water laws: Between centralization, decentralization, and rivalries

This article explores the process of reforming Palestinian water laws, in particular the last water law enacted in 2014. These legislative reforms are part of an international context of modernization...

The Institutionalization of Irrigation and the Effects thereof: the Case of the Palestinian Water User Associa...

This article proposes the deconstruction of the decentralization process by analyzing Palestinian regulations on Water User Associations (WUAs): contrarily, this analysis instead reveals dynamics of c...

Questioning Fishing Access Agreements towards Social and Ecological Health in the Global South

While marine ecosystems play a major role in the regulation of climate and our Planet's ability to cope with climate change, they are also critical for providing food, livelihood, and income to billio...

Delivering public interest goods in Africa. Stopgap measures, state reform, and commons

Given the polysemy of the concept of “commons,” we use the concept of “public interest goods,” the content of which varies according to historical situations. In Africa, different institutions (modes...

A “shared earth” approach to put biodiversity at the heart of the sustainable development in Africa

Biodiversity is a classic example of a global commons. As we enter the coming decades of a rapidly changing climate, declining biodiversity, growing human populations and economic growth, sub-Saharan...

The Commons

The Commons explores the many forms of development being championed by Africa’s residents, users, and citizens. In addition to managing property and shared tangible and intangible resources colle...

The Commons, vectors for development in East Africa

East Africa, like the rest of the continent, is currently facing increasingly complex social and environmental dilemmas. Faced with these challenges, the commons is an interesting approach, as it expe...

Participatory irrigation management: from theory to reality – Insights from the Phước-Hòa irrigation project

PIM (Participatory Irrigation Management) has become one of the cornerstones of irrigation development. Its implementation always involves multilayered interaction between international ideologies, de...

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