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1 Consultants in Technology Management and Development Studies (TEAMS). 1991. Study on management and costs of operation and maintenance of irrigation systems under the Irrigation Department, Sri Lanka - Final report. Vol. 1 - Main report. Report submitted to International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI), Sri Lanka filed operations by Consultants in Technology Management and Development Studies (TEAMS). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Consultants in Technology Management and Development Studies (TEAMS). 162p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.4 G744 STU Record No: H08569)
2 Hall, A. W. 1999. Priorities for irrigated agriculture. Agricultural Water Management, 40(1):25-29.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H024079)
3 International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR). 2001. How to write a convincing proposal: strengthening project development, donor relations, and resource mobilization in agricultural research: workshop materials. Workshop and training programme held at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, 5-10 March 2001. 648p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630.7 G000 INT Record No: H041429)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 INT Record No: H042120)
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5 Njiwa, D.; Kumwenda, I.; Thindwa, I.; Chilonda, Pius; Olubode-Awosola, O.; Davids, A. 2008. Monitoring trends in public spending on agriculture: the case of Malawi. Pretoria, South Africa: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT); Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 32p. (ReSAKSS Working Paper 9)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 338.1 G166 NJI Record No: H042646)
6 Clayton, Terry. 2009. The myth of insufficient information. Chemistry International, 32(1):19-21.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042731)
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7 Madawalagama, N.; Kamaladasa, B. 2010. Irrigation infrastructure management by public funds: how It can be made justifiable. In Jinapala, K.; De Silva, Sanjiv; Aheeyar, M. M. M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the National Conference on Water, Food Security and Climate Change in Sri Lanka, BMICH, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 9-11 June 2009. Vol. 3. Policies, institutions and data needs for water management. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.65-72.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G744 JIN Record No: H042805)
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8 WHO; UN-Water. 2010. UN-Water global annual assessment of sanitation and drinking-water (GLASS) 2010: targeting resources for better results. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO. 90p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.61 G000 WHO Record No: H043232)
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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 8046 Record No: H044107)
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This report is presented in compliance with the Contract for Consultancy Services between the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI), in association with Sir William Halcrow and Partners Ltd., and Lanka Hydraulic Institute Ltd., ADB Contract No.98-502, dated 25 September 1998. This report presents the findings and recommendations of Phase 2 of the Western River Basins Sector Project Preparation Technical Assistance.
10 Brathen, S.; Hervik, A. 1997. Strait crossings and economic development: developing economic impact assessment by means of ex post analyses. Transport Policy, 4(4):193-200.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044288)
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There is widespread scepticism among politicians and authorities concerning CBA as a main instrument for decision-making. This may cause possible bias towards non-quantitative factors as decisive. The challenge is to improve the methological approach, carefully examining the real benefits for road users. One way of doing this is to develop ex post CBA to test how critical assumptions lit to reality. The focus of this paper is on ex post analyses carried out with five case studies in larger infrastructure projects to assess the economic profitability actually occurring from new infrastructure. There are substantial differences in benefits ex post compared with the exante analyses, mainly explained by a shift parameter in willingness to pay (WTP) for the improvements. These ‘inconvenience costs’ saved by the road users add to the traditional value-oftime benefits. The paper also examines the profitability of private versus public funding and ends up with some considerations on regional impacts of transport infrastructure. A short presentation of a pilot study from two of the fixed links to elicit the influence on local industry is given. Some informal results support the theory of forward and backward linkages from new economic geography.
11 McDonald, J. 2011. The role of law in adapting to climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2(2):283-295.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044371)
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Legal institutions and instruments will play an important role in climate change adaptation, along with technological, managerial, and behavioral strategies. Law can facilitate adaptation, using regulation to reduce exposure or sensitivity to climate hazards, establishing the legal architecture for new market mechanisms, and funding arrangements for adaptation costs and liability for climate impacts. It can also ensure the accountability of adaptation decision making and addressing some of the social justice dimensions of adaptation.Yet there are also characteristics of legal institutions, processes, and principles that may impede adaptation, including by creating compensable property rights that hinder new regulation. There are several characteristics of climate change and associated impacts that will make law-making for adaptation uniquely challenging. These include high levels of cascading uncertainty, irreversibility, the context-specificity of impacts, the long delay between emissions and impacts, and the interaction between climate change impacts and other environmental, social, and economic stressors. Laws dealing with substantive climate impacts may be appropriate and necessary in some cases, but the broader challenge for law-makers is to make legal processes and instruments more adaptive and responsive to change itself.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044374)
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This article provides an institutional analysis of the Mekong River Commission and brings to light the institutional dissonances between regional and national decision-making landscapes in the Lower Mekong Basin. The current scalar disconnect between regional and national decision-making processes reflects how international donors and member country representatives obscure potential conflict/tension in transboundary water governance in the Mekong. From a scholarly perspective, it questions academic approaches that assume that the state is the sole or primary actor in international relations.
13 Adank, M.; van Koppen, Barbara; Smits, S. 2012. Guidelines for planning and providing multiple-use water services. [CGIAR Challenge Program-Multiple-Use Water Systems (CP-MUS) Project guidelines]. Hague, Netherlands: International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 123p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044738)
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14 Mikhael, M.; Yoder, R. 2008. Multiple-use water service implementation in Nepal and India: experience and lessons for scale-up. [Report of the CGIAR Challenge Program-Multiple-Use Water Systems (CP-MUS) Project]. Denver, CO, USA: International Development Enterprises (IDE); Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 318p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044752)
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15 van Koppen, Barbara; Smits, S. 2012. Multiple use water services: scoping study synthesis. Final report [MUS project]. Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); New York, NY, USA: Rockefeller Foundation; Hague, Netherlands: International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC). 59p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045518)
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16 Matthews, N.; Nicol, A.; Seide, W. M. 2012. Constructing a new water future?: an analysis of Ethiopia's current hydropower development. In Allan, T.; Keulertz, M.; Sojamo, S.; Warner, J. (Eds.). Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa: foreign direct investment and food and water security. London, UK: Routledge. pp.311-323.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 ALL Record No: H045687)
17 Consultants in Technology Management and Development Studies (TEAMS). 1991. Study on management and costs of operation and maintenance of irrigation systems under the Irrigation Department, Sri Lanka - Final report. Vol. 1 - Main report. Report submitted to International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI), Sri Lanka filed operations by Consultants in Technology Management and Development Studies (TEAMS). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Consultants in Technology Management and Development Studies (TEAMS). 162p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.4 G744 STU Record No: H008569)
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18 Keen, B.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Slavich, P.; Bell, R.; Tam, H. M. 2013. ACIAR Project on Opportunities to Improve the Sustainable Utilisation and Management of Water and Soil Resources for Coastal Agriculture in Vietnam and Australia. Final report. Canberra, Australia: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). 70p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046209)
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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 WOR Record No: H046306)
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20 Suhardiman, Diana; Giordano, M. 2014. Legal plurality in Mekong hydropower: its emergence and policy implications. In Bhaduri, A.; Bogardi, J.; Leentvaar, J.; Marx, S. (Eds.). The global water system in the anthropocene: challenges for science and governance. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. pp.355-367. (Springer Water)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046588)
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The changing role of the state and the increased participation of non-state actors has blurred the meaning of international affairs and highlighted overlapping power structures at international, national, and local levels. This paper illustrates how these power structures shape the hydropower decision making landscape in one of the world’s most dynamic transboundary basins, the Mekong. Using the Lao PDR as a case study, we highlight how international donors’ influence in the overall shaping of national policy and legal frameworks, the state’s positioning of hydropower development as the main source of revenue, and the emerging importance of private sector actors manifested in overlapping rules and legal plurality in hydropower decision making. While legal plurality reflects the inherently contested terrain of hydropower, it also highlights the importance of power geometries and the scale dynamics in hydropower governance. The growing role of non-state actors may be interpreted as a reduction in state decision making power, but it may also be seen as a means for the state to take advantage of competing interests, in this case receiving both donor funding and private capital. If international donors expect national government agencies to promote meaningful application of internationally defined socio-environmental safeguards, they need to create space for critical discussion and move beyond the current standardized approach in promoting sustainable hydropower development.
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