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Institutional Challenges for National Groundwater Governance : Policies and Issues
Theesfeld, Insa - 2017
Understanding the issues surrounding groundwater governance is a precondition for developing policy recommendations for … both national and transboundary groundwater governance. This review discusses groundwater attributes relevant to the design … of governance systems and provides a systematic review of current national groundwater governance differentiated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946631
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License to Drill : Typology of Groundwater Use Regulations in Agriculture of Uzbekistan
Knorr, Hannes; Theesfeld, Insa; Soliev, Ilkhom - 2022
-term surface water supply. Groundwater is a potential alternative for irrigation purposes. Little research is available about how … farmers in Uzbekistan use groundwater for irrigation, and how formal regulations are implemented on the ground. Based on semi …-structured, qualitative interviews with farmers and experts in Uzbekistan, we provide a typology of groundwater regulation, exploring the use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244256
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Germany’s Light Version of Integrated Water Resources Management
Theesfeld, Insa; Schleyer, Christian - 2017
follows a light version of IWRM, by only coordinating groundwater and surface water responsibilities rather than integrating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119165
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The Land–Water–Food Nexus : Expanding the Social–Ecological System Framework to Link Land and Water Governance
Klümper, Frederike - 2017
To date, the land–water–food nexus has been primarily addressed from an ecological, hydrological or agronomic angle, with limited response to the governance interface between the input resources. Likewise, in widely used heuristic frameworks, such as the social–ecological system (SES)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950740
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Can Water Abundance Compensate for Weak Water Governance? Determining and Comparing Dimensions of Irrigation Water Security in Tajikistan
Klümper, Frederike - 2017
In this paper we consider both hydrology and governance as critical dimensions for irrigation water security. We scale down the overall water security concept to the agricultural sector, suggest an index of irrigation water security faced by farmers, and provide an empirical illustration in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954259
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Water Grabbing and the Role of Power : Shifting Water Governance in the Light of Agricultural Foreign Direct Investment
Bues, Andrea - 2017
In recent years, the trend for foreign actors to secure land for agricultural production in low-income countries has increased substantially. The concurrent acquisition of water resources changes the institutional arrangement for water management in the investment areas. The consequences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955249
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Can water abundance compensate for weak water governance? : determining and comparing dimensions of irrigation water security in Tajikistan
Klümper, Frederike; Herzfeld, Thomas; Theesfeld, Insa - 2017
In this paper we consider both hydrology and governance as critical dimensions for irrigation water security. We scale down the overall water security concept to the agricultural sector, suggest an index of irrigation water security faced by farmers, and provide an empirical illustration in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761483
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Water grabbing and the role of power : shifting water governance in the light of agricultural foreign direct investment
Bues, Andrea; Theesfeld, Insa - 2012
In recent years, the trend for foreign actors to secure land for agricultural production in low-income countries has increased substantially. The concurrent acquisition of water resources changes the institutional arrangement for water management in the investment areas. The consequences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763780
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A common pool resource in transition : determinants of institutional change for Bulgaria's postsocialist irrigation sector
Theesfeld, Insa - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241733
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Giving Birds a Starting Date : The Curious Social Solution to a Water Resource Issue in the U.S. West
Theesfeld, Insa - 2017
Examining a natural resource management system, we show that what first looks like rigid path dependency is actually stepped incremental change. The theoretical question then arises of whether it is possible to predict when a natural resource governance system will follow such an incremental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947974