About the Editors Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction Josselin Rouillard, Christina Babbitt, Edward Challies and Jean-Daniel Rinaudo Chapter 2 The politics of groundwater allocation and the transition from open access William Blomquist and Christina Babbitt Chapter 3 Allocations and legal trends in the 21st century Rebecca L. Nelson Chapter 4 Indigenous water and Mother Earth Margot A. Hurlbert Chapter 5 Allocations and environmental flows Eric D. Stein, Michael E. McClain, Ashmita Sengupta, Theodore E. Grantham, Julie K. H. Zimmerman and Sarah M. Yarnell Chapter 6 Economics and water allocation reform C. Dionisio Pérez-Blanco Chapter 7 England and Wales: countering ‘unsustainable abstraction’ with the catchment based approach David Benson, Hadrian Cook, M. Yasir Ak and Burcin Demirbilek Chapter 8 Water allocation in Spain. Legal framework, instruments and emerging debates Carles Sanchis-Ibor, Manuel Pulido-Velazquez, Juan Valero de Palma and Marta García-Mollá Chapter 9 Managing a common resource in agriculture: an overview of the French nested water allocation system Josselin Rouillard and Jean-Daniel Rinaudo Chapter 10 Turkey’s water allocation regime under institutional change M. Yasir Ak, Burcin Demirbilek and David Benson Chapter 11 Water allocation in Aotearoa New Zealand: societal values and ecological bottom lines Edward Challies, Stephen Fragaszy and Josselin Rouillard Chapter 12 Groundwater allocation in New South Wales, Australia Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Alvar Closas and Andrew McCallum Chapter 13 Water allocation in Brazil: main strategies, learning and challenges Guilherme F. Marques Chapter 14 What are we allocating and who decides? Democratising understanding of groundwater and decisions for judicious allocations in India Uma Aslekar, Dhaval Joshi and Himanshu Kulkarni Chapter 15 Legal frameworks for agricultural water use in Canada: a comparative study of Alberta and Québec Hugo Tremblay Chapter 16 Idaho’s Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer: cooperative water policy change for Idaho’s groundwater farmers Katrina Running Chapter 17 Polycentric governance in Nebraska, U.S., for ground and surface water Theresa Jedd, Anthony Schutz and Mark Burbach Chapter 18 Transboundary water allocation in the Amudarya Basin of Central Asia Dinara Ziganshina Chapter 19 Current challenges in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo Basin: old disputes in a new century Regina M. Buono and Gabriel Eckstein Chapter 20 Transitioning away from open access: lessons learnt from a comparative analysis of water allocation regimes worldwide Josselin Rouillard, Christina Babbitt, Edward Challies and Jean-Daniel Rinaudo Index