AbstractTransition intermediaries are expected to play an important role in the acceleration stage of the energy transition. While existing scholarship helps us understand the role of transition intermediaries in the early stages of transitions, it remains unclear what role intermediation plays in subsequent transition stages, especially at the local level where the implementation of policies and legislation takes place. In this article, we aim to investigate how intermediation takes shape in the acceleration stage of the energy transition. Drawing on the literature on transition intermediaries and intermediation at the local level, we explore the role of transition intermediaries in two local energy projects in the Netherlands. Through extensive qualitative research, we find that various actors can act as transition intermediaries and that a single actor can fulfil different intermediary roles simultaneously. Our findings contribute to the literature on transition intermediation and urban intermediaries, emphasising the key role intermediaries play in aligning innovations with existing institutional configurations. Furthermore, we highlight their role in connecting the energy transition to broader societal developments, including through citizen involvement in local and regional governance arrangements.
"Post-modernism" and "post-socialism" are two frames that have been widely applied to account for urban changes over the past decades. It is a common statement to consider socialist urbanism as the pivotal embodiment of modernist thinking. The transformation to post-socialism consequentially appears as an instance of post-modernization. This overview article challenges such identification, arguing that modernist endeavours and the experience of the modern have been more diverse and complex than such periodization imply. In the present paper, we want to make the distinction between a narrow and broad conception of modernism. In the first part, we begin by discussing the "high modernist" approach, often conflated with modernism in toto. In such a narrow understanding, "modernism" amounts to a particular style in architecture and approach in urban planning and governance. Next, we present a broad conception of modernism as a cultural response to the experience of modernity and the yearning for being modern. We argue for the necessity of addressing the complexity and breadth of modernist visions. In conclusion, we pinpoint the major themes addressed by the contributors to this special issue and highlight how we think this volume contributes to scholarly debates about the merit of revisiting and resurrecting modernist urbanism in twenty-first century post-socialist urban contexts and beyond.
The social dimensions of economic integration have become an increasingly significant feature of trade agreements, particularly those between developing countries. In the Brazilian case trade-related labour standards have not become a major feature outside of the regional organization Mercosur (Common Market of the South), yet we know relatively little about the reasons for this discrepancy. Paradoxically one of the main stakeholders in this debate, Brazilian trade unions, has broadly supported social and labour clauses in the regional context but union activists have opposed labour provisions in trade negotiations between asymmetric partners. A comparative analysis of the labour campaigns in Mercosur and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations explains this ambiguity in terms of Brazilian labour strategies towards free trade negotiations and explores their implications for evaluations of labour attitudes to trade-related labour standards in developing countries. The labour movement's own conflicting perspectives on the trade–labour connection are a key explanation of these outcomes, reinforcing the need for a greater appreciation of the complexity of trade union views in the debate on labour standards.
In den Politikwissenschaften waren die 1990er Jahre geprägt von einer Debatte um 'Europäisierung', v.a. ausgelöst von dem Eindruck, dass die Europäische Union zunehmenden Einfluss auf den (sub-) nationalen Politikebenen bekam. In den raumbezogenen Disziplinen spielte diese Debatte lange Zeit kaum eine Rolle. Zwar beschäftigen sich viele Geographen und Raumplaner durchaus mit einer Vielzahl von Aspekten der EU-Politik, und eine zunehmende Bedeutung der EU wird zweifellos auch hier gesehen. Eine konzeptionelle Debatte aber wurde lange nur in Ansätzen geführt. Dieser Beitrag skizziert zunächst die politikwissenschaftlich geprägte Debatte um Europäisierung und fragt sodann nach räumlichen Bezügen. Hierbei wird zunächst die These einer möglichen Deterritorialisierung reflektiert, bevor dann die These der Reterritorialisierung im Sinne einer komplexer werdenden Rolle von Raum im Politikprozess diskutiert wird. Sodann wird am Beispiel der Regionalpolitik das Instrument der Politikfeldanalyse vorgestellt, bevor abschließend die Potenziale der geographischen Perspektive kurz erörtert werden. Dieser Beitrag versteht sich als einleitende Überblicksdarstellung, die abschließend zu den weiteren, spezifischeren Beiträgen des Themenheftes zur Europäisierung überleitet.
"This book presents the latest research on three issues of crucial importance to Asian cities: governance, liveability, and sustainability. Together, these issues canvass the salient trends defining Asian urbanization and are explored through an eclectic compendium of studies that represent the many voices of this diverse region. Examining the processes and implications of Asian urbanization, the book interweaves practical cases with theories and empirical rigour while lending insight and complexity into the towering challenges of urban governance. The book targets a broad audience including thinkers, practitioners, and students"--
AbstractGovernments increasingly use policy experimentation programs to seek solutions for complex problems. Because randomization and controllability are unrealistic for real‐world policy experiments, how subnational pilots are selected is crucial for generating sound evidence for national replication. However, the received wisdom on pilot sampling is thin and paradoxical. While some studies suggest that policymakers prefer to select regions with favorable conditions, others contend that securing representativeness remains the principal concern when it comes to pilot selection. This study resolves the paradox by elucidating the logic of selecting pilots in large policy experimentation programs. We focus on China's huge public hospital reform program and through a novel research design that combines comparative qualitative analysis and illustrative case studies we seek to explain the strategy for pilot selection. Our analyses reveal five distinctive pathways of pilot sampling: piloting for challenge, piloting for advancement, piloting for innovation, piloting for action, and piloting for regional generalization. Each modality represents a specific experimental purpose. We reveal that piloting serves as a versatile governance tool that can fulfill multiple functions in complex reforms.
AbstractThis article examines the adoption, by the New Labour government, of a mixed communities approach to the renewal of disadvantaged neighbourhoods in England. It argues that while there are continuities with previous policy, the new approach represents a more neoliberal policy turn in three respects: its identification of concentrated poverty as the problem; its faith in market‐led regeneration; and its alignment with a new urban policy agenda in which cities are gentrified and remodelled as sites for capital accumulation through entrepreneurial local governance. The article then draws on evidence from the early phases of the evaluation of the mixed community demonstration projects to explore how the new policy approach is playing out at a local level, where it is layered upon existing policies, politics and institutional relationships. Tensions between neighbourhood and strategic interests, community and capital are evident as the local projects attempt neighbourhood transformation, while seeking to protect the rights and interests of existing residents. Extensive community consultation efforts run parallel with emergent governance structures, in which local state and capital interests combine and communities may effectively be disempowered. Policies and structures are still evolving and it is not yet entirely clear how these tensions will be resolved, especially in the light of a collapsing housing market, increased poverty and demand for affordable housing, and a shortage of private investment.Résumé Le gouvernement New Labour a adopté une démarche de mixité des communautés dans le cadre de la rénovation des quartiers défavorisés anglais. Si certains aspects de la politique antérieure persistent, la nouvelle approche prend une tournure plus néolibérale à trois titres: en identifiant les concentrations de pauvreté comme étant le problème, en se fiant à une régénération par le marché, et en s'associant à un nouveau programme de politiques urbaines dans lequel les villes sont 'gentrifiées' et remodelées en tant que lieux d'accumulation de capital à travers une gouvernance locale de type entrepreneurial. En s'appuyant sur les premières phases d'évaluation de ces projets de démonstration sur la mixité, il est possible d'étudier l'exécution de la nouvelle approche à un niveau local, où elle s'ajoute aux actions, politiques et relations institutionnelles existantes. Des tensions entre intérêts des quartiers et intérêts stratégiques, entre communauté et capital, sont manifestes, tandis que les projets locaux s'efforcent de transformer les quartiers tout en cherchant à protéger les droits et intérêts des résidents en place. D'importants efforts de consultation des communautés se déroulent pendant qu'apparaissent les structures de gouvernance dans lesquelles les intérêts du capital et des autorités territoriales se combinent et où les communautés risquent bien de perdre toute capacité. Actions publiques et structures continuant d'évoluer, on ne peut pas encore voir comment ces tensions vont être réglées, compte tenu notamment d'un effondrement du marché du logement, d'une progression de la pauvreté, d'un accroissement de la demande d'habitations accessibles financièrement, et d'un manque d'investissement privé.
AbstractCity‐region theory — fuzzy as the boundaries of such a theory may be — centres on the claim that the territorial basis and organizational architecture of the global economy is now a mosaic of globally connected city‐regions rather than nations. Despite some intuitive appeal, there is a growing body of critique which targets specific frailties arising from the theoretical reliance in such arguments on a global capitalist‐logic and, relatedly, the focus on global exchange relations. In exploring the limits of these theoretical tendencies, this paper provides a critical account of the processual and practical formation of Sydney (NSW, Australia) as a city‐regional space of governance. It pays particular attention to the contingent emergence of Sydney's metropolitan policy regionalism through political mediations of the particular and complex politics elicited by the spatial distributional consequences of city‐region development. Its concluding argument is that city‐region formation must be understood as an ongoing and multiscalar process without autonomy from the national political economy or from its territory.
Background: Safe and clean drinking water is essential for human life. Persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT) substances and/or very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) substances are an important group of substances for which additional measures to protect water resources may be needed to avoid negative environmental and human health effects. PMT/vPvM substances do not sufficiently biodegrade in the environment, they can travel long distances with water and are toxic (those that are PMT substances) to the environment and/or human health. PMT/vPvM substance research and regulation is arguably in its infancy and in order to get in control of these substances the following (non-exhaustive list of) knowledge gaps should to be addressed: environmental occurrence; the suitability of currently available analytical methods; the effectiveness and availability of treatment technologies; the ability of regional governance and industrial stewardship to contribute to safe drinking water while supporting innovation; the ways in which policies and regulations can be used most effectively to govern these substances; and, the identification of safe and sustainable alternatives. Methods: The work is the outcome of the third PMT workshop, held in March 2021, that brought together diverse scientists, regulators, NGOs, and representatives from the water sector and the chemical sector, all concerned with protecting the quality of our water resources. The online workshop was attended by over 700 people. The knowledge gaps above were discussed in the presentations given and the attendees were invited to provide their opinions about knowledge gaps related to PMT/vPvM substance research and regulation. Results: Strategies to closing the knowledge, technical and practical gaps to get in control of PMT/vPvM substances can be rooted in the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability Towards a Toxic Free Environment from the European Commission, as well as recent advances in the research and industrial stewardship. Key to closing these gaps are: (i) advancing remediation and removal strategies for PMT/vPvM substances that are already in the environment, however this is not an effective long-term strategy; (ii) clear and harmonized definitions of PMT/vPvM substances across diverse European and international legislations; (iii) ensuring wider availability of analytical methods and reference standards; (iv) addressing data gaps related to persistence, mobility and toxicity of chemical substances, particularly transformation products and those within complex substance mixtures; and (v) advancing monitoring and risk assessment tools for stewardship and regulatory compliance. The two most effective ways to get in control were identified to be source control through risk governance efforts, and enhancing market incentives for alternatives to PMT/vPvM substances by using safe and sustainable by design strategies. ; ISSN:2190-4715 ; ISSN:2190-4707
Of all the countries identified as rising powers on the world stage, Brazil appears to have drawn considerable economic and political strength from its engagement with various forms of regionalism during the expansionist years when Lula was president. Whether by helping create a local, intra-regional entity (Mercosul) or, later, proposing a continental one (UNASUL), Brasilia appeared to have the capacity to further its own economic and political interests by generating cooperative interactions with its smaller neighbors. Subsequently it took a leading role in inter-regional negotiations between Mercosul and the European Union in the global North and between Mercosul and ASEAN in the global South. More recently still, it spread its wings by associating trans-regionally with powers that are similarly dominant within their own regions – IBSA (India, Brazil, and South Africa) and BRICS (Russia, India, China, and South Africa) which shared with it a desire to play greater roles in the major institutions of global governance. While these new associations have their inner raisons d'être, belonging to them also bolsters Brazil's weight in such traditional multilateral organizations as the United Nations and the WTO which were previously dominated by the US-Europe-Japan triad. This working paper assesses the relative importance of these different regionalisms in Brazil's emergence on the global stage by counterposing them with such standard explanations of a state's global significance as its military might, economic strength, and its soft-power influence overseas. We identify how various regionalisms interact with traditional bilateral and multilateral relations in helping or hindering Brazil in its global ascent. We conclude to our surprise that regionalism has only played a minimally positive role economically. Even politically, it has on occasion become more hindrance than help in boosting Brazil into its current orbit - as its announced intention to negotiate separately with the EU suggests.
United Nations (UN) member states and the UN development system (UNDS) are in a familiar bind: They have problems that they've always wanted to set right but never found the energy for, and as the problems grow, so does the challenge of correcting the wrongs. For decades, member states have discussed the need to establish a system-wide executive authority at the top of the UNDS to keep it functioning. The new "2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" makes considering this option more urgent than ever, and the current reform process presents an opportunity to finally make the UNDS "fit for purpose". The need to reform and in some way integrate the UNDS is little disputed by member states or experts. With its 34 funds, programmes, specialized agencies and other entities, 1,432 country offices, no effective system-wide coordination and rising levels of earmarked contributions, the UNDS is on an unsustainable trend of fragmentation and "bilateralization" (that is, donors contracting UNDS entities to implement their priorities, marginalising the multilateral framework). In its current form, the UNDS can hardly be expected to play a significant role in the collective effort to transform our world. For this, the UNDS must provide integrated development solutions, acting as one. It must become more efficient, effective and professional. And it must ensure multilateral functions such as the provision of objective knowledge, coordination, long-term orientation and intellectual leadership. A system-wide executive authority is needed to run the UNDS. The core functions of such an executive authority would be to administer the Resident Coordinator system, draft and monitor a system-wide framework and corresponding financial overview, and act as the "brain" of the UNDS. How could this be implemented? This paper suggests that instead of adding new structures, the existing coordination forum of the UN Development Group (UNDG) should be separated from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and re-organized as the executive authority: The position of the UNDG Chair should be transformed into the High Commissioner for Sustainable Development (HCSD)", heading the new executive authority. The Development Operations Coordination Office (DOCO) should form the nucleus of the new executive authority's secretariat and draw additional units and staff from the UNDS. Funding should continue to be provided through the UNDG cost-sharing agreement, which should be significantly expanded. UNDS members of the Chief Executives Board (CEB) should make up the new executive authority's board of directors, with the HCSD representing the UNDS in the CEB. The specialized agencies should be become quasi-equal members of the UNDS, subject to the same coordination as the funds and programmes, but on the basis of an opt-out mechanism. Such an executive authority would arguably enhance UNDS performance more than any other reform, with initial costs compensated by increased efficiency. It would amount to an urgently needed investment in higher quality operational activities, winning back the trust of donors and recipients.
Die Ebola-Pandemie ist eine Krise globalen Ausmaßes und Anlass zu weltweiter Sorge. Räumlich konzentriert, verlangt sie lokale Maßnahmen mit globaler Reichweite. Ihr voraussichtlicher Verlauf ist Thema wechselnder Prognosen, widersprüchlicher Nachrichten, gefährdeter Maßnahmen und zunehmend auch großer Ängste. Ebola ist eine Gesundheitskrise mit gravierenden Folgen für die Wirtschaft sowie eine Bedrohung für Frieden und Sicherheit in der Region, aber auch darüber hinaus. Eine Erfolg versprechende Reaktion auf die Ebola-Pandemie muss auf zwei Ebenen ansetzen: Die aktuelle Krise muss unter Kontrolle gebracht werden. Wir schlagen eine Reihe kurzfristiger Maßnahmen vor, die vor allem gekennzeichnet sein sollten durch eine bessere Koordinierung innerhalb der Staatengemeinschaft. Sie dienen dem Aufbau allgemein akzeptierter Führungsstrukturen für die globale Gesundheit: im System der Vereinten Nationen (UN) verankert und von wichtigen globalen Akteuren wie den USA und der EU unterstützt. Dieser Pandemie-Ausbruch sollte so bewältigt werden, dass zukünftige verhindert werden können. Dazu müssen internationale Akteure die herrschenden strukturellen Defizite bearbeiten. Entsprechende Maßnahmen müssen drei Aspekte berücksichtigen: Erstens ist die Ebola-Pandemie eine globale Krise. Neben den Folgen einer Infektion für den einzelnen, kann sie schnell eine Panik auslösen, die medizinische, soziale, wirtschaftliche und politische Kosten unkalkulierbar macht. Zweitens ist Ebola nicht nur für die betroffenen Menschen, sondern auch für die betroffene Region eine Krise, die Gesundheit, Wirtschaft und Sicherheit bedroht (u. a. wo Menschen abseits der Ebola-Zentren medizinische Hilfe suchen). Drittens stellt die Infektion eine Gesundheits-, Wirtschafts- und Sicherheitskrise für Westafrika und darüber hinaus dar: Ihre Ausbreitung bedroht die zerbrechlichen Erfolge der Post-Konflikt-Gesellschaften von Guinea, Liberia und Sierra Leone. Darüber hinaus kennzeichnen den Großraum Westafrika und die Sahelzone fragile gesellschaftliche Strukturen. Angesichts von Quarantäne, Angst und einbrechendem Handel kämpft die Bevölkerung um ihre Existenz; sozioökonomische und politische Spannungen können unter diesen Bedingungen rasch zunehmen. Ebola verdeutlicht Schwächen der internationalen Zusammenarbeit. Für die Herausforderung einer engagierten, koordinierten Reaktion ist Folgendes wichtig: Der Ebola-Ausbruch auf dicht besiedeltem Stadtgebiet zeigt, dass funktionsfähige lokale, nationale und globale Gesundheitssysteme überlebenswichtig sind. Zoonosen sind leicht übertragbar und werden auch zunehmend die Menschheit betreffen. Wir müssen vor allem präventiv agieren, und damit auch lernen, erste Anzeichen zu erkennen und zu reagieren. Das macht deutlich, dass schwache lokale Systeme, gerade in Postkonfliktregionen, nicht nur eine lokales Risiko, sondern eine globale Bedrohung sein können. Das aktuelle Krisenmanagement der Staatengemeinschaft ist weder wirksam noch ausreichend. Ein Haupt-grund ist die chronische Unterfinanzierung von Kernaufgaben großer internationaler Institutionen. Die Staatengemeinschaft sollte ihre Möglichkeiten systematischer nutzen, die Leistungsfähigkeit des (globalen) Gesundheitssektors zu steigern.
The central contention of this article holds that scholars do not adequately assess and explain the influence of transboundary security issues on government behaviour. Their assessment is not adequate because they do not fully conceptualize the relationship between internal and external security concerns. Their explanations are not adequate because existing theories cannot fully explain how and why states respond to transboundary security issues. To rectify these concerns, stimulate and structure further research, and encourage scholarly dialogue, we build an analytical framework for (a) understanding what we describe as the 'nexus' of internal and external security matters, and (b) explaining why that nexus may change state behaviour on transboundary security issues. The resulting framework encourages a strong focus on the nature of transboundary problems before studying their implications for changes in perceptions, policies, politics and polity.
Since 2019 the Government of Mojokerto City has made efforts to convert the performance appraisal system manually into an online system. This effort was made to realize effective and efficient governance based on technology. E-Performance is a website-based application used by the Government of Mojokerto City to manage and assess employee performance. E-Performance is a staffing system that can determine oversight to the activities of civil servants, who can then directly determine the amount of the additional income of civil servant. The purpose of this study is to analyze and prove the effect of e-performance appraisal system and additional income of civil servant on performance in the Regional Secretariat of Mojokerto City with job satisfaction as an intervening variable. This research uses a quantitative approach combined with an explanatory method. The results of this study conclude several things, including: 1.) E-Performance appraisal system has significant positive effect on performance; 2.) Additional income of civil servant has significant positive effect on performance; 3.) E-Performance appraisal system has significant positive effect on job satisfaction; 4.) Additional income of civil servant has significant positive effect on job satisfaction; 5.) Job satisfaction has significant positive effect on performance; 6.) E-Performance appraisal system and additional income of civil servant have significant positive effect on performance through job satisfaction.
The emergence of sustainable development as a mainstream issue in the global political agenda defused voices critical of the limits to growth by embracing the discourse of ecological modernization. According to this narrative, environmental problems can and should be dealt with by the promotion of economic growth within existing economic and institutional arrangements. The field of water governance echoed this discourse in the new integration ideas of integrated water resources management, which has gradually become a dominant water management paradigm over the last decades. In the meantime, the western scientific arena has experienced a drastic epistemological shift from mechanicism to complexity. A theoretical basis of complexity underpins the new field of sustainability science, which strives to respond to the challenges associated with retrieving unsustainable patterns through inter- and transdisciplinary research on social-ecological systems. However, water science for governance is slowly mirroring the epistemological implications of complexity, such as the existence of multiple perceptions of nature, the multi-scale organization of living systems, and circular causality as the main type of relationship maintaining this organization. Some research challenges associated with these issues are the following: integrated analysis involving multiple scales and dimensions; mechanisms for quality control over the narratives leading problem-solving; and critical assessments of win-win techno-social fixes. This dissertation attempts to respond to these challenges by offering a complex systems perspective on water resources management that conceptualizes watersheds as social-ecological systems. The research objective is to develop an integrated assessment of the implementation of sustainability objectives in water policies in two semi-arid water basins: the Andarax River basin in Almeria (Spain) and the Tucson basin in Arizona (United States). For this purpose, the dissertation proposes a theoretical framework for the integrated assessment of water governance that combines a series of conceptual devices, such as a complex definition of water use, a holarchic depiction of coupled water-human systems, the water metabolism of social-ecological systems, the semiotic process of water management, and water availability as a boundary object. This conceptual repertoire is operationalized through a methodological framework that bridges quantitative analytical tools, such as a spatial-relational data model and the Multi-Scale Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism, and qualitative discourse analysis and assessment of public policies. The first case study follows the implementation of the first cycle of the Water Framework Directive 2009-2015 in the Andarax River basin. It begins with a thorough characterization of the water metabolism of one sub-basin, linking the analysis of societal and that of ecosystem metabolism on a spatially explicit basis. It is proposed that the analysis of ecosystem metabolism should be carried out through the eco-hydrological processes that control water resource renewability (supply-side sustainability), the impacts caused to ecosystem health (sink-side sustainability), and the boundary concepts of water availability and ecosystem water requirements. The analysis revealed the metabolic pattern of a high mountain rural system with a multi-functional economy striving to deal with exodus and agricultural land abandonment. Centuries of social-ecological evolution shaping waterscapes through traditional water management practices have influenced the eco-hydrological functioning of the basin, enabling the adaptation to aridity. Management challenges posed by the European water regulatory framework as a new driver of social-ecological change are highlighted. In the second analytical chapter, the interplay between agricultural and water policies is assessed on a multi-scale basis by bridging the analysis of management plans and that of societal metabolic patterns. The resulting analysis shows that the integration of these policies is undertaken at regional level through techno-social fixes consisting mainly of new resources and the improvement of irrigation efficiency. Agriculture is the main driver of water use patterns, and a range of which are found in the basin with different associated challenges regarding the meeting of environmental objectives of the Directive. The trade-offs associated with management decisions are uncovered in terms of the rebound effect in water use and the intensification of the energy cost of the water supply. The case study ends with an assessment of the semiotic process of the water management cycle. Discourse analysis shows the existence of multiple contested narratives surrounding the question of how water should be managed. However, the dominant narratives pervading water management decisions prioritize high-cost supply augmentation as a means of coping with environmental objectives. Critical narratives that pinpoint structural problems of metabolic change in rural communities, offer eco-integrative views of economic development, or denounce institutional dysfunction, are disregarded. The analysis shows that management strategies so far have been largely cost-ineffective in a context of financial austerity, and that the management system is notably vulnerable to perturbations. The improvement of information, transparency and accountability arises as a key challenge in the fostering of trust and the improving of adaptive capacity. The second case study reviews the state of the art of current debates surrounding the sustainability objective in Arizona water policy, focusing on the Tucson basin area. Achieving safe yield for aquifers by 2025 was endorsed in the Groundwater Management Act of 1980, and since then three management cycles have implemented different strategies to pursue this. These combined growth control measures, improved productive efficiency through conservation practices and new resources from the Colorado River and wastewater reclamation. Combining a historical perspective on water use and its drivers with spatial analysis of groundwater management, the analysis of the study area shows how the Central Arizona Project was a tipping point in the water metabolism. The Project allowed continuing fueling economic growth, both through multiplying the sources available and through the infrastructural and institutional complexity involved. The research indicates that growth limitations have only been operative in the agricultural sector, which drives overall demand and overdraft variability. Conservation programs have been effective in the most important segment of the demand, which is the residential use of large urban areas. The recharge and recovery program was the key innovative solution to curbing overdraft, although fiddly accounting and legal mechanisms obscure an uneven progress towards safe yield. The disconnection of recovery from recharge sites entails local impacts on water table levels driven by mines and new developments. While new infrastructures are being negotiated in order to expand the reach of the supply from the canal, vulnerability to potential Colorado water shortages and the high uncertainty over the achievement and maintenance of a distributed safe yield appear as core management issues for the next decade.
