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2013 will help to better understand what is happening inside the political black box
and how the linkages between the socio-economic domain (including the patterns of
groundwater use) and the institutional domain function. A great deal has already been
learnt. As a result of the case work, there is a better understanding of (1) how national
level political systems actually work and how they affect priorities for groundwater
management and local processes of allocation, regulation, investment and facilitating
access; (2) what the remit of the political systems is - in other word what gets 'politi-
cized' and how and where are the boundaries of the political 'ability to act' (a concept
as important as the 'will to act'); and (3) how 'voids' come to exist and what perpet-
uates them (i.e. areas where the resource is degrading but nothing happens in terms
of conflict or cooperation). The integration of these elements forms the challenge of
linking existing knowledge with innovative research and experimentation.
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