Groundwater governance and the Law of the Hidden Sea
Groundwater governance and the Law of the Hidden Sea
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地下水治理与隐海法则
DOI：
10.2166/wp.2009.021
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发表时间：
2009
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通讯作者：
W. Jarvis
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作者：
E. López;W. Jarvis
该文件提供了一种替代的跨学科方法来处理与地下水资源相关的复杂性，提供了一个新的角度，整合了水文地质学家定义的深层地下水系统与政治科学家开发的自然资源治理范式转变。它质疑地下水资源管理的零敲碎打的方法，以及对巨大的深层含水层或隐藏的地下水海洋的水力连接缺乏认识。这里提出的地下水资源“后主权”和“多层次”治理模式承认地下水在水力上与海洋相连，在预测建模方面同样复杂，而不是依赖传统的地下水治理方法，将地下水资源视为主权国家边界下的矿产资源。属于《海洋法公约》全球“契约”范围内的与海洋有关的现有法律的文书，以及目前为制定一项关于跨界含水层的法律的文书所作的努力，提供了有益的经验教训。该文件的结论是，可以修改“世界水合同”或《隐海法》，将地下水作为与地表水资源没有直接水力联系的全球共有深层含水层纳入其中，这些含水层是正在发展的人类共同遗产的一部分。
The paper offers an alternative interdisciplinary approach to dealing with the complexity associated with groundwater resources, providing a new angle that integrates deep groundwater systems as defined by hydro-geologists with a paradigm shift in natural resource governance, developed by political scientists. It questions the piecemeal approach to governance of groundwater resources, coupled with the lack of acknowledgment regarding the hydraulic connection of vast deep aquifers—or a hidden sea of groundwater. Rather than relying on traditional approaches to groundwater governance, which treat the resource like a mineral resource underlying the boundaries of a sovereign nation, the “post-sovereignty” and “multi-level” governance model proposed here for groundwater resources acknowledges that groundwater is hydraulically connected to the ocean and is equally complex with respect to predictive modeling. Existing legal instruments associated with the ocean that fall under the global “contract” of the UNCLOS, together with ongoing efforts to develop a legal instrument for transboundary aquifers, offer useful lessons. The paper concludes that a “world water contract” or Law of the Hidden Sea could be adapted to incorporate groundwater as a global common, deep aquifers that are not in direct hydraulic connection with surface water resources and that are part of the developing common heritage of mankind.