Permanent international river basin organizations (IRBOs) come in many shapes and sizes, ranging from those which are mainly facilitative in nature to those empowered to act on their own. Although differences in IRBO types may have important impacts on transboundary water resources management, sy...
Lautze, Jonathan
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Wegerich, Kai
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Kazbekov, Jusipbek S.
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Yakubov, Murat
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[International river basin organizations: variation, options and insights.]
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International river basin organizations: variation, options and insights.
While best practice in water management typically calls for the use of a basin-level approach, specific guidance in the absence of basin-level management is fairly scant. This paper reviews the experience of the Syr Darya basin to identify insights related to second best practices for water manag...
Wegerich, Kai
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Kazbekov, Jusipbek S.
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Lautze, Jonathan
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Platonov, Alexander
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Yakubov, Murat
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[From monocentric ideal to polycentric pragmatism in the Syr Darya: searching for second best approaches.]
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From monocentric ideal to polycentric pragmatism in the Syr Darya: searching for second best approaches.
Donor sponsored projects are often criticized for the tendency to impose standardized institutional and technical solutions in irrigation. Although, this might be the case, a project is based on internal actors, ‘project owners’, who influence solutions and implementation processes. Little attent...
Kazbekov, Jusipbek S.
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Wegerich, Kai
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Yakubov, Murat
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Musayev, Sardorbek
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Akramova, Indira
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[Project owners – overlooked factors of uncertainty in the example of a water infrastructure improvement project?]
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Project owners – overlooked factors of uncertainty in the example of a water infrastructure improvement project?
While best practice in water management typically calls for the use of a basin-level approach, specific guidance in the absence of basin-level management is fairly scant. This paper reviews the experience of the Syr Darya basin to identify insights related to second best practices for water manag...
Wegerich, Kai
,
Kazbekov, Jusipbek S.
,
Lautze, Jonathan
,
Platonov, Alexander
,
Yakubov, Murat
,
[From monocentric ideal to polycentric pragmatism in the Syr Darya: searching for second best approaches]
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From monocentric ideal to polycentric pragmatism in the Syr Darya: searching for second best approaches
Uzbekistan, being historically one of the most populated and agriculture-based republics in the former Soviet Union, still features quite high annual population growth rates and great dependence on agriculture as a backbone for the rest of the economic reforms.With water playing an extremely impo...
Yakubov, Murat
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Manthrithilake, Herath
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[Water for food as food for thought: case study of applying the PODIUMSim model to Uzbekistan]
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Water for food as food for thought: case study of applying the PODIUMSim model to Uzbekistan