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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]

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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)

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?

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  • Christel Bosc & Isabelle Doussan, 2009. "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]," Post-Print hal-02661943, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02661943
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