Underpricing of irrigation water is frequently identified as a primary cause of excessive use of water for irrigation. Higher prices are believed to have the potential to promote conservation. Changes in user behavior are predicated on a quantitative relationship between water charges and the vol...
Molle, Francois
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[Water scarcity, prices and quotas: a review of evidence on irrigation volumetric pricing]
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Water scarcity, prices and quotas: a review of evidence on irrigation volumetric pricing
Water management is commonly assumed to be a mere technical matter where experts and managers endeavour to match supply and demand by using technology, through rational problem-solving and by engaging stakeholders. This article, in contrast, emphasizes that river basin development and management ...
Molle, Francois
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[Water, politics and river basin governance: repoliticizing approaches to river basin management]
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Water, politics and river basin governance: repoliticizing approaches to river basin management
In the last two decades water has clearly moved from the purview of experts and engineers to a wider forum where stakeholders articulate different claims, values and interests around water management issues. This article takes the example of current debates on water resource development in the Me...
Manifestations of water scarcity are increasingly frequent, even in regions with temperate climates and endowed with good water resources. This paper argues that several 'bad good reasons' and mechanisms are at work to generate 'overbuilt basins', whereby the development of infrastructural resour...
Molle, Francois
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[Why enough is never enough: the societal determinants of river basin closure]
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Why enough is never enough: the societal determinants of river basin closure
Molle, Francois
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Floch, P.
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[Megaprojects and social and environmental changes: the case of the Thai ''water grid'']
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Megaprojects and social and environmental changes: the case of the Thai ''water grid''
Jayakody, Priyantha
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Molle, Francois
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[Paddy to hydropower: a conflict between uses: case study in Kaltota, Sri Lanka]
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Paddy to hydropower: a conflict between uses: case study in Kaltota, Sri Lanka
As demand and competition for water resources increase, the river basin has become the primary unit for water management and planning. While appealing in principle, practical implementation of river basin management and allocation has often been problematic. This paper examines the case of the Kr...
Venot, Jean-Philippe
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Bharati, Luna
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Giordano, Mark
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Molle, Francois
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[Beyond water, beyond boundaries: spaces of water management in the Krishna River basin, South India]
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Beyond water, beyond boundaries: spaces of water management in the Krishna River basin, South India
Venot, Jean-Philippe
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Biggs, Trent W.
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Molle, Francois
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Turral, H.
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[Reconfiguration and closure of river basins in South India: trajectory of the lower Krishna basin]
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Reconfiguration and closure of river basins in South India: trajectory of the lower Krishna basin
Floch, P.
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Molle, Francois
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[Marshalling water resources: A chronology of irrigation development in the Chi-Mun River Basin Northeast Thailand]
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Marshalling water resources: A chronology of irrigation development in the Chi-Mun River Basin Northeast Thailand
Several water policy principles considered to be modern and internationally sanctioned have recently been adopted by Vietnam. This article focuses on the establishment of the Red River Basin Organization but expands its analysis to the wider transformations of the water sector that impinge on the...
Molle, Francois
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Hoanh, Chu Thai
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[Implementing integrated river basin management in the Red River Basin, Vietnam: a solution looking for a problem?]
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Implementing integrated river basin management in the Red River Basin, Vietnam: a solution looking for a problem?