This book undertakes a scholarly assessment of the state-of-the-art of law and policy perspectives on groundwater and climate change at the international, regional and national levels. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Water International.

Philippe Cullet is Professor of International and Environmental Law at SOAS University of London, UK, and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, India.

Raya Marina Stephan is an international consultant, expert in water law. She works in international projects related to water management and transboundary waters, with a special focus on groundwater.

1. Introduction to 'Groundwater and Climate Change: Multi-level Law and Policy Perspectives' Philippe Cullet and Raya Marina Stephan 2. Regulating the interactions between climate change and groundwater: lessons from India Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar and Sujith Koonan 3. Assessing India's drip-irrigation boom: efficiency, climate change and groundwater policy Trevor Birkenholtz 4. Climate change, groundwater and the law: exploring the connections in South Africa Michael Kidd 5. Groundwater law, abstraction, and responding to climate change: assessing recent law reforms in British Columbia and England Birsha Ohdedar 6. EU legal protection for ecologically significant groundwater in the context of climate change vulnerability Owen McIntyre 7. Groundwater use in North Africa as a cautionary tale for climate change adaptation Marcel Kuper, Hichem Amichi and Pierre-Louis Mayaux 8. Global climate change and global groundwater law: their independent and pluralistic evolution and potential challenges Joyeeta Gupta and Kirstin Conti 9. Climate change considerations under international groundwater law Raya Marina Stephan