Introduction
Part1: Groundwater institutions
1. From an open-access to a state-controlled resource: the case of groundwater in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
2. Pathways for effective groundwater governance in the least-developed-country context of the Lao PDR
3. Using backcasting to explore ways to improve the national water department’s contribution to good groundwater governance in South Africa
4. Groundwater governance through institutional bricolage? Participation in Morocco’s Chtouka aquifer contract
Part2: Groundwater management
5. Exploring the future impacts of urbanization and climate change on groundwater in Arusha, Tanzania
6. Impact of land use and occupation on potential groundwater recharge in a Brazilian savannah watershed
7. Problems and promise of managed recharge in karstified aquifers: the example of Lebanon
8. A multifaceted quantitative index for sustainability assessment of groundwater management: application for aquifers around Iran
Part3: Groundwater users
9. Whither collective action? Upscaling collective actions, politics and basin management in the process of ‘legitimizing’ an informal groundwater economy
10. Participatory rural appraisal to assess groundwater resources in Al-Mujaylis, Tihama Coastal Plain, Yemen
11. Federal reserved rights and California's Groundwater Management Act: resolving groundwater rights tensions in California and the western United States
Part4: Groundwater for irrigation
12. Learning from the past to build the future governance of groundwater use in agriculture
13. Drivers of groundwater utilization in water-limited rice production systems in Nepal
14. Groundwater policies and irrigation development: a study of West Bengal, India, 1980?2016
Part5: Transboundary aquifers
15. Transboundary groundwater governance in the Guarani Aquifer System: reflections from a survey of global and regional experts
16. A methodology to identify vulnerable transboundary aquifer hotspots for multi-scale groundwater management
17. Binational reflections on pathways to groundwater security in the Mexico?United States borderlands
18. A critical review of the transboundary aquifers in South-Eastern Europe and new insights from the EU’s water framework directive implementation process