La reconquête des stocks de poissons est très lente : entretien
Water and sand : is groundwater-based farming in Jordan's desert sustainable ?
Irrigated agriculture in Jordan's highlands relies on overexploited groundwater. Drops in water tables and water quality, but also tougher policy measures by the government, threaten the sustainability of this activity which has long thrived on lax law enforcement and cheap desert land. This paper is based on field work in two locations of Azraq gr...
Groundwater governance : a synthesis
Perceptions of groundwater degradation and mitigation responses in the Haouaria in Tunisia
Avoiding the negative effects of intensive groundwater resource use is challenging, especially when the interactions and causal pathways between biophysical and socioeconomic processes are complex, and when users, management, and regulatory bodies are spatially dispersed. The plain of Haouaria, in north-eastern Tunisia, has witnessed an important d...
Des territoires vivants pour transformer le monde
Des territoires vivants pour transformer le monde
Impacts of global change on western mediterranean aquifers
In central Tunisia, near the city of Kairouan, the Merguellil catchment illustrates the multiple forms of the global change affecting Mediterranean water resources. In this semi-arid region, climatic fluctuations have always constrained the water resources, but anthropization has become by far the most influential driver of change in the last centu...
La micro-irrigation et les ressources en eau au Maroc : un coûteux malentendu
Depuis une dizaine d'années, le Maroc a engagé un plan ambitieux d'investissements dans le domaine de l'agriculture. Dans un contexte où le potentiel de mobilisation de ressources supplémentaires est marginal et où le déstockage annuel des nappes est de l'ordre d'un milliard de m3, l'expansion et l'intensification de la production agricole irriguée...
Perceptions of groundwater degradation and mitigation responses in the Haouaria in Tunisia
Avoiding the negative effects of intensive groundwater resource use is challenging, especially when the interactions and causal pathways between biophysical and socioeconomic processes are complex, and when users, management, and regulatory bodies are spatially dispersed. The plain of Haouaria, in north-eastern Tunisia, has witnessed an important d...
Water and sand : is groundwater-based farming in Jordan's desert sustainable ?
Irrigated agriculture in Jordan's highlands relies on overexploited groundwater. Drops in water tables and water quality, but also tougher policy measures by the government, threaten the sustainability of this activity which has long thrived on lax law enforcement and cheap desert land. This paper is based on field work in two locations of Azraq gr...
