气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): California groundwater management, science-policy interfaces, and the legacies of artificial legal distinctions

CCPortal

DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab0751
	California groundwater management, science-policy interfaces, and the legacies of artificial legal distinctions
	Owen D.; Cantor A.; Nylen N.G.; Harter T.; Kiparsky M.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	17489318
卷号	14 期号:4
英文摘要	California water law has traditionally treated groundwater and surface water as separate resources. The 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) broke with this tradition by requiring groundwater managers to avoid significant and unreasonable adverse impacts to beneficial uses of surface water. This paper considers the trajectory of this partial integration of science, law, and resource management policy. Drawing on legal analysis and participatory workshops with subject area experts, we describe the challenges of reconciling the separate legal systems that grew out of an artificial legal distinction between different aspects of the same resource. Our analysis offers two main contributions. First, it demonstrates that laws that subdivide an interconnected resource can have legacy effects that linger long after lawmakers begin dismantling the artificial divides. Using SGMA as a case study, the article illustrates the complexities of reconciling law with science, showing that reconciliation is a process that does not end with updating statutes, or with any other single intervention. Second, we introduce a framework for evaluating the elements of an effort to reconcile law with scientific understanding, whether that reform effort involves groundwater or some other resource. Applying that framework helps reveal where lingering legacy effects still need to be addressed. More generally, it reveals the need for literature addressing science-policy interactions to devote more attention to the multifaceted nature of law and policy reform. Much of that literature describes policy-making in broad and undifferentiated terms, often referring simply to 'the science-policy interface.' But as the SGMA case study illustrates, the complex and multi-layered nature of policy-making means that a successful reform effort may need to address many science-policy interfaces. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	California; groundwater; science-policy interfaces; SGMA; surface water
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Artificial limbs; Decision making; Groundwater; Groundwater resources; Public policy; Surface water resources; Surface waters; California; Groundwater management; Participatory workshops; Resource management policy; Science - policy interfaces; Science policies; SGMA; Sustainable groundwater management; Water treatment; groundwater; groundwater resource; policy making; resource management; surface water; water management; water resource
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/154602
作者单位	University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA, United States; Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States; University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States; University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Owen D.,Cantor A.,Nylen N.G.,et al. California groundwater management, science-policy interfaces, and the legacies of artificial legal distinctions[J],2019,14(4).
APA	Owen D.,Cantor A.,Nylen N.G.,Harter T.,&Kiparsky M..(2019).California groundwater management, science-policy interfaces, and the legacies of artificial legal distinctions.Environmental Research Letters,14(4).
MLA	Owen D.,et al."California groundwater management, science-policy interfaces, and the legacies of artificial legal distinctions".Environmental Research Letters 14.4(2019).