Are contracts with farmers sustainable in water management? Political and legal approach

La gestion contractuelle de l'eau avec les agriculteurs est-elle durable ? Approche politique et juridique

Christel Bosc and Isabelle Doussan ()
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Christel Bosc: ENITAC - Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs des Travaux Agricoles de Clermont-Ferrand
Isabelle Doussan: SAE2 - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et Alimentation, Espace et Environnement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UNSA - Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis

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Abstract: The variety of protection of drinking water catchments in France reveals many sorts of negociations between authorities and farmers. A legal and political reflexion about contractual tool leads to some contemporary trends of water management: limits and evolutions of law, sociological conditions of local arrangements, challenges and stakes for a sustainable protection. Two case studies, one in Vacquières (Hérault) and the other in Narbonne (Aude), have been analysed with the tools of the political science and they show a large diversity of contractual practices deployed by public and private stakeholders. However, two principal issues are emerging: is this territorialization of public action, which is supposed to be efficient, adapted to ensure to everybody a sanitary or even an environmental water quality? How to combine at best incentive and legal responses?

Keywords: DURABILITE; WATER CATCHMENT; ACCEPTABILITY; CONTRAT; POLLUTIONS AGRICOLES; CAPTAGES D'EAU; ACCEPTABILITE; CONTRACT; AGRICULTURAL POLLUTIONS; SUSTAINABLE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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Published in Économie rurale, 2009, 309, pp.65-80

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