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Finding Practical Approaches to Integrated Water Resources Management
Butterworth, John; Warner, Jeroen; Moriarty, Patrick; … - 2010
argue that a more service-orientated (WASH, irrigation and ecosystem services), locally rooted and balanced approach to IWRM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468359
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Private Exchange and Social Capital: Multiple Functions of Common Property Regimes in Haiti
White, T. Anderson - 1996
forest or irrigation system). Increasingly, practitioners and researchers realize that individuals often contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468326
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Adoption and Impacts of Zero Tillage as a Resource Conserving Technology in the Irrigated Plains of South Asia
Erenstein, Olaf; Farooq, Umar; Malik, R. K.; Sharif, … - 2007
"The recent stagnation of productivity growth in the irrigated areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia has led to a quest for resource-conserving technologies that can save water, reduce production costs and improve production. The present synthesis of two detailed country studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468459
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An Integrated Assessment of Investments Towards Global Water Sustainability
Bassi, Andrea M.; Tan, Zhuohua; Goss, Sophie - 2010
"To date there has been limited research on integrated water resource management, specifically regarding investments, from a global perspective, largely due to the complexity of the problem and to generally local water management practices. Water demand and supply are very often affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468465
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Chaos on the Commons: Considering the Implications of Nonequilibrium Theory for Common Property Research
Morgan, Betty - 1995
recent theoretical developments in nonequilibrium analysis. Using the Navaho Indian Irrigation Project as a case study, this … the developmental history of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project from a nonequilibrium perspective. The paper concludes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468365
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What is the Right Form of Irrigation Organization?
Wade, Robert - 1986
"At least one leading practitioner of organizational design has come, like myself, to the conclusion that organizaton theory does not have much to offer on the question of appropriate design. William Smith, who in 1980 wrote a long paper called 'The design of organizations for rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468392
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New Marine Commons Along the Chilean Coast: The Management Areas of Penualas and Chigualico
Gallardo Fernández, Gloria L.; Friman, Eva - 2010
in the late 1990s institutionalised commons – Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURFs), which since then have had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468350
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Chapter 58 The Economics of Water, Irrigation, and Development
Schoengold, Karina; Zilberman, David - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2933-2977). 2007
The post-World War II era has witnessed a drastic increase in irrigation activities that have contributed substantially … distinction has to be made between the overall positive contribution of irrigation to agricultural productivity and economic … irrigation. In many cases, water resources have been overdeveloped; there has been overspending on capital; and significant costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024066
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Water allocation policies in coastal Karnataka: an analysis of Nethravathy River Basin
Bhatta, R. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2008
priority to drinking water followed by irrigation, power generation through hydroelectric projects, agro industries, industries … fisheries. The establishment of PCPIL and MSEZ are likely to increase the pressure on the Nethrawathy and Gurupur river basins …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741061
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Do irrigation programs make poor rural communities in Bolivia less vulnerable to climatic and other shocks?
Andersen, Lykke E.; Cardona, Marcelo; Romero, Daniela - In: Revista latinoamericana de desarrollo económico 24 (2015), pp. 9-46
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584299