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Figure 5.2
Moving (solid lines) and connecting positions (dotted lines) of stakeholders in the GPP
context.
5.8 CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION
The building blocks from the socio-economic, institutional and political domains
explained in this chapter all lead to a better understanding of the complexity of
groundwater management and the governance regimes in the different field situations.
Theoretical work on governance regimes and its levels and scales, the relation between
conflict, cooperation and the political black box, the role of politics and different types
of states, and factors of change is useful and needs further development in order to
fully grasp the complexity of the data from the three case studies. One of the main
lessons to be learned is to allow the narrative of the cases to take into account the
interaction between the resource, groundwater in our case, the different users and the
researchers. This process is dialectical by nature and is considered special enough to
be dealt with in further analysis from a hydrolectical point of view
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(Linton, 2010;
Smidt et al., in prep.). In conjunction with the considerations in this chapter, such a
framework offers guidance for a theoretical understanding of what is happening in the
field.
In addition to these theoretical building blocks, some important practical leads
have been identified that help to further develop the interaction between theory and
action-based research in the project:
1 Describing and comparing patterns of the interaction between conflict, coopera-
tion and change is considered the main challenge of the present work. Existing
practical and/or theoretical pattern descriptions can be useful, but the cases them-
selves will deliver the specific patterns. The narrative will be as important as the
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Hydrolectics assumes a dialectical water-mankind relation as in 'water is what we make of it'.
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