Integrated water resources management provides a set of ideas to help us manage water more holistically. However, these ideas have been formalized over time in what has now become, in capitals, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), with specific prescriptive principles whose implementatio...
Strict hydrologic definitions of basins coupled with technological advances including the use of remote sensing and geographic information systems have given us more accurate and detailed knowledge than ever before about the scale and extent of transboundary waters. This information has had both ...
Giordano, Mark
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Peterson-Perlman, J.
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[Do hydrologic rigor and technological advance tell us more or less about transboundary water management?]
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Do hydrologic rigor and technological advance tell us more or less about transboundary water management?
Increasing the productivity of rice-wheat cropping systems is critical for meeting food demand in rapidly growing South Asia. But this must be done with increasingly scarce water resources, bringing greater attention to Resource Conservation Technologies (RCTs) such as zero tillage, laser land le...
Ahmad, M.D.
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Masih, I.
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Giordano, Mark
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[Constraints and opportunities for water savings and increasing productivity through Resource Conservation Technologies in Pakistan]
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Constraints and opportunities for water savings and increasing productivity through Resource Conservation Technologies in Pakistan
Poor performance of government-managed irrigation systems persists in developing countries despite numerous policy interventions over the last four decades. We argue that many of these interventions have failed, because they did not recognize irrigation bureaucracies as prime actors in policy cha...
The changing notion of state territoriality highlights overlapping power structures at international, national, and local scales and reveals how states can be “differently” powerful. This article analyzes how the interplay of these power structures shapes the dynamics of natural resource manageme...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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[Legal plurality: an analysis of power interplay in Mekong hydropower]
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Legal plurality: an analysis of power interplay in Mekong hydropower
Hydropower development is occurring at a rapid, though controversial, pace in the Mekong. We highlight the role of scientific assessment in shaping the Mekong hydropower debate, taking the strategic environmental assessment of the twelve planned mainstream dams as a case study. While environmenta...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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Molle, Francois
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[Between interests and worldviews: the narrow path of the Mekong River Commission]
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Between interests and worldviews: the narrow path of the Mekong River Commission
This article examines the policy and institutional constraints on smallholder adoption of groundwater irrigation practices in Sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis departs from the unilateral focus on the promotion of technologies and probes not only the issues of groundwater governance but also those...
Chokkakula, S.
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Giordano, Mark
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[Do policy and institutional factors explain the low levels of smallholder groundwater use in Sub-Saharan Africa?]
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Do policy and institutional factors explain the low levels of smallholder groundwater use in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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Douangsavanh, L.
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[Legal pluralism and the logic of hydropower development in the Mekong region]
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Legal pluralism and the logic of hydropower development in the Mekong region
Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele
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Sally, Hilmy
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Bahri, Akissa
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David, S.
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Giordano, Mark
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[Water security for food security: gaps, needs and potential for growth in Sub-Saharan Africa]
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Water security for food security: gaps, needs and potential for growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Irrigation tanks in India are common property resources. Tanks provide not only for irrigation, but also forestry, fishing, domestic water supply, livestock, and other uses. Using empirical results from a study of tank performance from 80 tanks in Tamil Nadu, South India in two time period: 1996-...
Kuppannan, Palanisami
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Giordano, Mark
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Ranganathan, C.R.
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[Tank performance and multiple uses in Tamil Nadu, South India-comparison of 2 time periods (1996-97 and 2009-10).]
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Tank performance and multiple uses in Tamil Nadu, South India-comparison of 2 time periods (1996-97 and 2009-10).