In the last two decades, international donors have promoted Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) as an international remedy to management problems in government irrigation systems in many developing countries. This article analyses the political processes that shape IMT policy formulation and imp...
Suhardiman, Diana
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[The power to resist: irrigation management transfer in Indonesia]
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The power to resist: irrigation management transfer in Indonesia
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?
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...
Since the early 2000s, governance has been at the core of the international water agenda. This has elicited calls for reforms in the irrigation sector, including efforts to address the problem of corruption. Nevertheless, the history of policy reform in the irrigation sector is one of repeated in...
Venot, Jean-Philippe
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Suhardiman, Diana
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[Governing the ungovernable: practices and circumstances of governance in the irrigation sector]
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Governing the ungovernable: practices and circumstances of governance in the irrigation sector
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
Notions of benefit sharing play an increasingly important role in shaping the debate around the merits of existing and future hydropower development in the Mekong region. In this paperwe assess how the concept of benefit sharing is articulated and applied in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam....
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
Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been prescribed in the global water policy literature for decades. This article looks at how the concept has been applied in Nepal. It highlights the normative approach in IWRM policy formulation, the existing institutional barriers to apply it and...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Clement, Floriane
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Bharati, Luna
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[Integrated water resources management in Nepal: key stakeholders’ perceptions and lessons learned]
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Integrated water resources management in Nepal: key stakeholders’ perceptions and lessons learned
Mekong hydropower is developing rapidly. Laos is at the forefront of this development. While hydropower development supports the country’s economic growth, many observers have highlighted the potential negative impacts for people’s livelihoods. Taking the Nam Mang 3 hydropower project as a case s...
Sayatham, M.
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Suhardiman, Diana
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[Hydropower resettlement and livelihood adaptation: the Nam Mang 3 Project in Laos]
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Hydropower resettlement and livelihood adaptation: the Nam Mang 3 Project in Laos