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1 Kurian, M.; Dietz, T.; Murali, K. S. 2003. Scaling-up participatory watershed management: Evidence from the Himalayan foothills. Economic and Political Weekly, 38(50):5285-5293.
Water rights ; Watershed management ; Collective action ; Participatory management ; Dams / India / Haryana
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6789, IWMI 631.7.3 G000 KUR Record No: H032504)
This paper presents a post-project evaluation of an award winning Joint Forest Management (JFM) program in the Shiwalik Hills, Haryana, India. The focus is on the development and management of a series of small dams which commanded the major proportion of funds in the project. Our findings are based on a rapid survey of 28 Hill Resource Management Societies (HRMS) and a detailed case study of two (HRMS) in the Morni-Pinjore Forest Division of Haryana. Over the period 1990-98 the Ford Foundation, Tata Energy Research Institute and Haryana Forest Department worked together to scale-up the highly successful Sukhomajiri watershed management model. The project can hardly be termed a success. Due to rapid siltation less than 20 percent of dams were functioning in 2000. A number of factors contributed to the failure. These include lack of an effective catchment stabilization plan, lack of effective leadership in management of dams and lack of interest on the part of farmers who had either tubewells or substantial income from non-farm sources. In summary, government and donor agencies attempting to scale up participatory watershed management must be aware of the pre-conditions needed for success.
2 Kurian, M.; Dietz, T.; Murali, K. S. 2003. Rule compliance in participatory watershed management – Is it a sufficient guarantee of sustainable rural livelihoods? In ICID Asian Regional Workshop, Sustainable Development of Water Resources and Management and Operation of Participatory Irrigation Organizations, November 10-12, 2003, The Grand Hotel, Taipei. Vol.2. Taipei, Taiwan: ICID. pp.521-552.
Watershed management ; Participatory management ; Equity ; Water allocation ; Equity ; Water rates ; Gender ; Women / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: ICID 631.7.2 G570 ICI Record No: H033372)
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3 Dietz, T.; Ostrom, E.; Stern, P. C. 2003. The struggle to govern the commons. Science, 302:1907-1912.
Environmental effects ; Governance ; Institutions ; Natural resources ; Ecology ; Resource management ; Fisheries
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6660 Record No: H033597)
4 Kurian, Matthew; Dietz, T.. 2004. Irrigation and collective action: a study in method with reference to the Shiwalik Hills, Haryana. Natural Resources Forum, 28(1):34-49.
Irrigation management ; Collective action ; Watershed management ; Dams ; Communal irrigation systems ; Households ; Social aspects ; Rain ; Climate ; Forests ; Employment ; Agricultural production ; Peasant workers ; Water use ; Conflict ; Water allocation ; Water rates / India / Haryana
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H031445)
5 Kurian, Mathew; Dietz, T.. 2005. How pro-poor are participatory watershed management projects?: an Indian case study. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). v, 25p. (IWMI Research Report 092) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.093]
Watershed management ; Participatory management ; Poverty ; Farm income ; Labor ; Households ; Women ; Forest management ; Dams ; Irrigated farming ; Case studies / India / Haryana
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.5 G635 KUR Record No: H037220)
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This report draws on a survey and case study evidence from 28 watershed management groups in Haryana to argue that participatory watershed management projects need not necessarily safeguard the interests of poorer rural households.
6 Kurian, M.; Dietz, T.. 2007. Hydro-logic: poverty, heterogeneity and cooperation on the commons. New Delhi: Macmillan. 221p.
Watershed management ; Participatory management ; Collective action ; Peasantry ; Erosion ; Dams ; Forest management ; Natural resources management ; Irrigation management ; Poverty ; Employment ; Landlessness ; Income ; Forest resources / India / Haryana / Shiwalik Region / Sukhomajiri Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G635 KUR Record No: H040897)
7 Kurian, M.; Dietz, T.. 2003. Irrigation and collective action: a study in method with reference to the Shiwalik Hills, Haryana. Hague, Netherlands: Institute of Social Studies (ISS). 32p. (ISS Working Paper Series No. 374)
Irrigation management ; Collective action ; Watershed management ; Water use ; Forests ; Dams ; Agriculture ; Households / India / Haryana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044428)
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8 Wagner, N.; Velander, S.; Biber-Freudenberger, L.; Dietz, T.. 2023. Effectiveness factors and impacts on policymaking of science-policy interfaces in the environmental sustainability context. Environmental Science and Policy, 140:65-67. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.11.008]
Environmental sustainability ; Policy making ; Sustainable development ; Decision making ; Stakeholders ; Biodiversity ; Climate change ; Political aspects ; Social learning
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051773)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901122003483/pdfft?md5=151900f5a82cded9a30aeeca36f7af77&pid=1-s2.0-S1462901122003483-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051773.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051773.pdf
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Organizations connecting science and policy, referred to as science-policy interfaces, aim to support policymakers with decision-relevant knowledge, scientific findings, and co-production processes. Given the rising significance of the role of evidence in decision-making in a world dealing with complex problems, a proliferation of literature has developed theories on the effectiveness of such interfaces. While there are studies providing evidence of these interfaces influencing policy, there is limited understanding of the comprehensive range of impacts on policies among multiple science-policy interfaces. Through a systematic review we analyzed how 69 research articles investigated structured science-policy interfaces related to environmental sustainability, organizing their types, effectiveness factors, outputs and related impacts on policymaking. We found a majority of the studies focused on global expert groups generating assessments leading to policy formulation and agenda setting, driven by social learning among policymakers. Most references regarding factors enabling impacts on policymaking of science-policy interfaces were found with regards to stakeholder participation, diverse background of experts, interdisciplinarity, and the communication of complexity. Further research is needed to explore the ‘fuzzy boundary’ between science and policy among different types and models of science-policy interfaces, the interdependencies between effectiveness factors, and the exogenous forces influencing the relationship between Science-Policy-Interfaces outputs and impacts on policymaking. By synthesizing the impacts on policymaking and associated factors of science-policy interfaces found in the literature, our review harmonizes the observations made by scholars on the effectiveness of SPIs in impacting sustainable development policies.
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