Increasing water withdrawals for urban, industrial, and agricultural use have profoundly altered the hydrology of many major rivers worldwide. Coupled with degradation of water quality, low flows have induced severe environmental degradation and water has been rendered unusable by downstream user...
Molle, Francois
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Wester, P.
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Hirsch, P.
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[River basin closure: processes, implications and responses]
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River basin closure: processes, implications and responses
This article argues that policy making is an interactive and ongoing process that transcends the spatio-temporal boundaries drawn by a linear, rational or instrumental model of policy. We construct this argument by analysing the making of the Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) policy in Mexico ...
Rap, Edwin
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Wester, P.
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[The practices and politics of making policy: irrigation management transfer in Mexico]
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The practices and politics of making policy: irrigation management transfer in Mexico
This article shows how large-scale commercial farmers, individually and collectively, are responding to land and water reform processes in the Thukela River basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. With a high degree of innovative agency, commercial farmers have effectively executed four strategies, e...
Mendez-Barrientos, L.E.
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Kemerink, J.S.
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Wester, P.
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Molle, Francois
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[Commercial farmers’ strategies to control water resources in South Africa: an empirical view of reform]
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Commercial farmers’ strategies to control water resources in South Africa: an empirical view of reform