Disadvantaged Communities and their Representation in Groundwater Governance Networks

• In Event: Collaborative Governance, Representation, and Environmental Justice

Brief Overview

We extract policy networks from 117 local groundwater management plans and develop measures of representation that relate to network statistics. We find that disadvantaged and unincorporated communities are consistently underrepresented.

Authors

• Aaron Guerra, University of California-Davis

• Elise Zufall, University of California-Davis

• Mark N. Lubell, University of California-Davis

• Tyler Andrew Scott, University of California-Davis