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Authors: Deborah Curran, Tom Gleeson, Xander Huggins

Published in: Hydrogeology Journal | Issue 3/2024

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The Comment on the subject article “Applying a science-forward approach to groundwater regulatory design (Curran et al. 2023)” is welcomed. The original paper developed an interdisciplinary language for and approach to examining the design of groundwater regulations and applied it to the subnational jurisdiction and new groundwater regime of British Columbia (BC), Canada. Building on the scholarly literature that identifies the failure of groundwater governance as a primary threat to groundwater sustainability, the authors of the original paper (two hydrogeology and one legal scholars) sought to promote interdisciplinary collaboration towards better legal scaffolding for groundwater by identifying characteristics of groundwater itself and applying those to necessary regulatory design. …

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Title: Reply to Comment on “Applying a science-forward approach to groundwater regulatory design”: Paper published in Hydrogeology Journal (2023) 31:853–871, by Deborah Curran, Tom Gleeson and Xander Huggins
Authors: Deborah Curran
Tom Gleeson
Xander Huggins
Publication date: 14-03-2024
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Hydrogeology Journal / Issue 3/2024
Print ISSN: 1431-2174
Electronic ISSN: 1435-0157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-024-02780-4

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