Compliance and enforcement: the Achilles heel of French water policy

Marielle Montginoul (), Jean-Daniel Rinaudo () and Charlotte Alcouffe
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Marielle Montginoul: UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - AgroParisTech - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jean-Daniel Rinaudo: BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
Charlotte Alcouffe: UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - AgroParisTech - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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Abstract: This chapter examines the compliance and enforcement issues relating to groundwater policy in France. It is based on a review of existing grey and scientific literature and a series of interviews conducted by the authors with enforcement officers in 16 French counties. The chapter starts with a presentation of the existing regulations governing groundwater abstraction (Section 1), followed by a description of how the law enforcement agencies are organised (Section 2) and how they operate (Section 3). It then describes the infractions observed by regulators and analyses the factors that may explain compliance and non-compliance (Section 4). The problems that limit the effectiveness of enforcement are discussed.

Keywords: water crime; criminal enforcement; administrative sanction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-03-17
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Published in Jean-Daniel Rinaudo; Cameron Holley; Steve Barnett; Marielle Montginoul. Sustainable groundwater management: a comparative analysis of French and Australian policies and implications to other countries, 24, Springer, pp.435-459, 2020, Global Issues in Water Policy, 978-3-030-32765-1. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-32766-8_23⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32766-8_23

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