Poor performance of government-managed irrigation systems persists globally. This paper argues that addressing performance requires not simply more investment or different policy approaches, but reform of the bureaucracies responsible for irrigation management. Based on reform experiences in The ...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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Rap, Edwin
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Wegerich, Kai
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[Bureaucratic reform in irrigation: a review of four case studies]
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Bureaucratic reform in irrigation: a review of four case studies
Ecological and Economic Zoning (EEZ) is a Land Use Planning (LUP) methodology that aims at defining separate areas for productive uses and conservation. EEZ is designed as a method that balances different interests and it devises land use policy through stakeholder participation, technical expert...
Jeronimo, R.P.
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Rap, Edwin
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Vos, J.
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[The politics of land use planning: gold mining in Cajamarca, Peru]
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The politics of land use planning: gold mining in Cajamarca, Peru
The Nile Delta and its 2.27 million ha of irrigated land makes up two thirds of Egypt’s agricultural land. It is also the terminal part of a river basin that spans and feeds 11 countries. Increases in dam and irrigation development in upstream parts of the basin is poised to conflict with agricul...
Molle, Francois
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Gaafar, I.
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El-Agha, Doaa E.
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Rap, Edwin
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[The Nile Delta’s water and salt balances and implications for management]
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The Nile Delta’s water and salt balances and implications for management
The paper presents and contrasts the experiences and challenges of three Regional Water Education Networks in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) - WaterNet (Southern and Eastern Africa), Crossing Boundaries (South Asia) and Concertacion (Andes, Latin America). These continental water ne...
Rap, Edwin
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Prakash, A.
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Zwarteveen, M.Z.
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[Organizing water education regionally: the innovations, experiences and challenges of three southern water networks]
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Organizing water education regionally: the innovations, experiences and challenges of three southern water networks
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
The expansion of the Totora Khocha dam-based irrigation system in the Pucara watershed is a case of planned re-engineering of a closing watershed. This article shows how, when irrigation systems expand in space and across boundaries to capture new water, they also involve new claims by existing a...
López, R.R.
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Vincent, L.
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Rap, Edwin
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[Re-engineering closing watersheds: the negotiated expansion of a dam-based irrigation system in Bolivia]
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Re-engineering closing watersheds: the negotiated expansion of a dam-based irrigation system in Bolivia