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1 Floch, P.. 2005. Water user associations as means of preventing and dealing with conflict: A perspective on irrigation-induced conflicts. M.Sc. Thesis submitted to the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of ‘Diplomingenieur’ ix, 103p.
Water user associations ; Farmers’ associations ; Conflict ; Irrigation programs ; Irrigation canals ; Organizations ; Water requirements ; Water demand ; Water delivery ; Water availability ; Domestic water / Sri Lanka / Walawe River Basin / Uda Walawe Irrigation System / Manamperigama Branch Canal / Kachchigala Subsystem
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: D 631.7.3 G744 FLO Record No: H036912)
2 Molle, Francois; Floch, P.. 2007. Water, poverty and the governance of megaprojects: the Thai “water grid” Chiang Mai, Thailand: Chiang Mai University, Unit for Social and Environmental Research. 30p. (M-POWER Working Paper MP-2007-01)
Development projects ; Investment ; Irrigated farming ; Governance ; Environmental effects ; Salinity ; Poverty ; Farmers / Thailand / Mekong River / Chi River / Mun River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G750 MOL Record No: H040943)
3 Floch, P.; Molle, Francois. 2007. Marshalling water resources: a chronology of irrigation development in the Chi-Mun River Basin, Northeast Thailand. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Chiang Mai University, Unit for Social and Environmental Research. 57p. (M-POWER Working Paper MP-2007-02)
River basin ; Water resources development ; Land use ; Population ; Irrigation programs ; Planning ; Pumping ; Surface irrigation ; Tank irrigation ; Dams ; Water policy / Thailand / Chi-Mun River Basin / Khong-Chi-Mun Irrigation Project
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G750 FLO Record No: H040944)
Irrigation development in northeast Thailand has witnessed an eventful last century. The ‘dry’ and ‘marginal’ lands of northeast Thailand have been continuously reshaped, in an attempt to both balance the seasonality of rainfall and to counter the in-season variations that constrains rainfed cultivation. Apart from that, the Thai government’s support for irrigation development has served many additional goals: food security and self-sufficiency, the creation of rural employment opportunities along with the support of agribusiness development, a counterstrategy against migration to the rural and national economic centers, and the fight against insurgency and the spread of communism. Throughout this period, attempts to render nature fit for human use has been both a state and a local process. Years before the height of the hydraulic mission in Thailand, farmers and communities have diverted surface waters with earthen bunds, constructed water wheels, and scooped water from channels and ponds to supplement water for agricultural production. While mostly local in the early years of the 20th century, it was only in the 1950s, both with the advent of the states increasing attempts to draw the peripheries of Thailand closer to the central state of (then) Siam, and with international aid flowing in for water resources development, that state sponsored irrigation development started to shape the waterscape of the region. First small in scale, these developments soon turned to large and multipurpose projects, and to a regionalization of water planning and development, which (at least on paper) interconnected the river basins of northeast Thailand. Interbasin-diversion (mostly from the Mekong main stem and more recently from Laos) to supplement the regions low runoff and limited available storage sites have rationalized the expansion of irrigated areas and have triggered dreams of a “Green Northeast”, an area where most agricultural land would be served by irrigation infrastructure. We will here, revisit irrigation developments in Northeast Thailand in an attempt to periodize changes in the major schools of thought and the dominant ideologies pushing for changing water resources development options, the major impacts of these developments which in turn influenced the considered options, and the economics of irrigation development at large. Furthermore, we will propose a trajectory of irrigation development in the Chi-Mun river basin, which, linking with the proposed storyline, will quantify the developments in the last century. Through this exercise we will highlight changes in land and water use, and trace major paradigms of water resources development back to their roots.
4 Molle, Francois; Floch, P.. 2008. Megaprojects and social and environmental changes: the case of the Thai ‘‘water grid’’ Ambio, 37(3):199-204.
Water resources development ; Governance ; Irrigation programs ; Development projects ; Labor ; Farmers ; Poverty ; Environmental effects ; Agricultural production / Thailand / Mekong Region
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H041828)
5 Molle, Francois; Floch, P.. 2008. The "Desert Bloom" syndrome: politics, ideology, and irrigation development in the Northeast of Thailand. Working paper. Montpellier Cedex, France: Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD); Chiang Mai, Thailand: Mekong Program on Water Environment and Resilience (M-POWER); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) 29p.
River basin management ; River basin development ; Water demand ; Symptoms ; Irrigation programs ; Water transfer ; Dams ; Reservoirs ; Political aspects ; Public investment ; Social aspects / Thailand / Laos / Khong Chi Mun Project / Green Isaan Project / Mun River / Huana Dam / Mekong River / Pak Mun Dam / Rasi Sali Dam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H041827)
6 Molle, Francois; Foran, T.; Floch, P.. 2009. Introduction: changing waterscapes in the Mekong Region: historical background and context. In Molle, Francois; Foran, T.; Kakonen, M. (Eds.). Contested waterscapes in the Mekong Region: hydropower, livelihoods and governance. London, UK: Earthscan. pp.1-19.
River basins ; Governance ; History ; Water resources development / Southeast Asia / Vietnam / Thailand / Laos / Cambodia / Mekong Region
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G800 MOL Record No: H042352)
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7 Molle, Francois; Floch, P.; Promphakping, B.; Blake, D. J. H. 2009. The 'greening of Isaan': politics, ideology and irrigation development in the northeast of Thailand. In Molle, Francois; Foran, T.; Kakonen, M. (Eds.). Contested waterscapes in the Mekong region: hydropower, livelihoods and governance. London, UK: Earthscan. pp.253-282.
River basins ; Irrigation programs ; Water resources development ; Dams ; Water storage ; Political aspects ; Financing ; Economic aspects / Thailand / Laos / Chi-Mun River Basin / Green Isaan Project / Khong-Chi-Mun Project
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G800 MOL Record No: H042359)
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8 Floch, P.; Molle, Francois. 2013. Irrigated agriculture and rural change in northeastern Thailand: reflections on present developments. In Daniel, R.; Lebel, L.; Manorom, K. (Eds.). Governing the Mekong: engaging in the politics of knowledge. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD). pp.185-198.
Irrigated farming ; Irrigation development ; Irrigation schemes ; Agricultural production ; Water use ; Yields ; Fertilizers ; Land resources ; Households / Northeastern Thailand
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046095)
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