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1 Giordano, M.; Wolf, A. T. 2002. Incorporating equity into international water agreements. Social Justice Research, 14(4):349-366.
Water management ; International cooperation ; Equity ; Water allocation ; Water law ; River basin development ; History ; Economic aspects ; Water policy
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6119 Record No: H030857)
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2 Hussain, I.; Giordano, M.. 2002. Case studies on agricultural water and poverty linkages in large and small systems: Some lessons for action. Paper presented at the Dhaka Meeting on “Water and Poverty Initiative” led by the Asian Development Bank, 22-26 September 2002, Dhaka. 18p.
Irrigation systems ; Poverty ; Manual pumps / South Asia / Sri Lanka / Pakistan / Vietnam / India / Walawe Left Bank System / Ruhuna Basin / Upper Indus Basin / Red River Delta / Nam Duong / Chaj Sub-Basin / Madhya Pradesh
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H031184)
3 Wolf, A. T.; Yoffe, S. B.; Giordano, M.. 2003. International waters: Identifying basins at risk. Water Policy, 5(1):29-60.
Water resources ; Indicators ; River basins ; Conflict ; Environmental control ; International cooperation / India / Africa / Mexico / Ganges Brahmaputra basin / Han / Incomato / Kunene / Kura-Araks / Lake Chad / La Plata / Lempa / Limpopo / Mekong / Ob (Ertis) / Okavango / Orange / Salween / Senegal river / Tumen river / Zambezi
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 WOL, PER Record No: H031348)
4 Hussain, I.; Giordano, M.; Hanjra, M. A. 2003. Agricultural water and poverty linkages: Case studies on large and small systems. In ADB, Water and poverty – A collection of case studies: Experiences from the Field. Manila, Philippines: ADB. pp.57-78.
Surface irrigation ; Poverty ; Settlement ; Manual pumps ; Case studies / Sri Lanka / Pakistan / Bangladesh / China / India / Indonesia / Vietnam / Chaj Sub-Basin / Madhya Pradesh / Ruhuna Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 ADB Record No: H032548)
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/propoor/files/ADB_Project/Research_Papers/Agricultural_water_poverty_linkages.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H_32548.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H_32548.pdf
5 Zhu, Z.; Giordano, M.; Cai, X.; Molden, D. 2003. Yellow river comprehensive assessment: Basin features and issues – Collaborative research between International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC) Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) iv, 26p. (IWMI Working Paper 057) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.185]
Flood control ; Water scarcity ; Environmental degradation ; Groundwater ; Social aspects ; River basin development ; Water use efficiency ; Crop production ; Wetlands ; Water pollution ; Water policy ; Reforms ; Water quality ; Flood plains
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G592 ZHU Record No: H033400)
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6 Zhu, Z.; Giordano, M.; Cai, X.; Molden, D. 2003. Yellow River Basin water accounting. In Yellow River Conservancy Commission. Proceedings, 1st International Yellow River Forum on River Basin Management - Volume II. Zhengzhou, China: The Yellow River Conservancy Publishing House. pp.149-165.
River basins ; Irrigation water ; Water resource management ; Environmental effects ; Water use ; Crop production ; Ecology / China
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G592 YEL Record No: H033854)
7 Giordano, M.. 2003. The geography of the commons: The role of scale and space. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 93(2):365-375.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7040 Record No: H035593)
8 Redclift, M.; Giordano, M.; Matzke, M.; Watts, M. 2001. Classics in human geography revisited. "Watts, M. 1983: Silent violence: food, famine and peasantry in northern Nigeria. Berkeley: University of California Press." Commentary 1; Commentary 2; Author's response: lost in space. Progress in Human Geography, 25(4):621-628.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043077)
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9 Lautze, Jonathan; de Silva, Sanjiv; Giordano, M.; Sanford, L. 2014. Water governance. In Lautze, Jonathan (Ed.). Key concepts in water resource management: a review and critical evaluation. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.25-38. (Earthscan Water Text)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 LAU, e-copy SF Record No: H046517)
10 Suhardiman, Diana; Giordano, M.. 2014. Legal plurality: an analysis of power interplay in Mekong hydropower. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 16p. (Online first). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2014.925306]
Water power ; Natural resources management ; Territorial waters ; Legal frameworks ; Decision making ; Fund ; Private sector ; State intervention ; Capacity building ; River basins ; Case studies / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Mekong Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046525)
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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 management in one of the world’s fastest changing transboundary basins, the Mekong. Taking the Lao People’s Democratic Republic as a case study, we highlight the existing inconsistency and institutional discrepancies in land, water, and environmental policy related to hydropower and illustrate how they are manifested in multiple decision-making frameworks and overlapping legal orders. The resulting legal plurality reveals the inherently contested terrain of hydropower but, more important, it illustrates how the central state has been able to use contradictory mandates and interests to further its goals. The specific Mekong hydropower case demonstrates that an understanding of power geometries and scale dynamics is crucial to meaningful application of social and environmental safeguards for sustainable dam development.More broadly, the case sheds light on the important role of states’ various agents and their multiple connections, partially explaining how the achievement of the central state’s goals can be derived from legal plurality rather than hindered by it.
11 Suhardiman, Diana; Giordano, M.; Rap, Edwin; Wegerich, Kai. 2014. Bureaucratic reform in irrigation: a review of four case studies. Water Alternatives, 7(3):442-463.
Bureaucracy ; Reform ; Water management ; Irrigation management ; Irrigation systems ; State intervention ; Organizational development ; Institutional reform ; Policy ; Public administration ; Political aspects ; Financing ; Farmers ; Case studies / Philippines / Mexico / Indonesia / Uzbekistan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046526)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol7/v7issue2/258-a7-3-1/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046526.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046526.pdf
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Poor performance of government-managed irrigation systems persists globally. This paper argues that addressing performance requires not simply more investment or different policy approaches, but reform of the bureaucracies responsible for irrigation management. Based on reform experiences in The Philippines, Mexico, Indonesia, and Uzbekistan, we argue that irrigation (policy) reform cannot be treated in isolation from the overall functioning of
12 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)
Legal aspects ; Legal systems ; Water power ; Policy making ; Decision making ; International waters ; Private sector ; International loans ; Funding ; Financial institutions ; Government agencies ; Socioeconomic environment ; Case studies / South East Asia / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Mekong
(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.
13 Balasubramanya, Soumya; Giordano, M.; Wichelns, D.; Sherpa, Tashi. 2014. Sharing hydropower revenues in Nepal, over time and across districts and regions. Water Resources and Rural Development, 4:104-111. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wrr.2014.10.007]
Water power ; Benefits ; Economic development ; Equity ; Water resources ; Local government ; Central government ; Decentralization ; Budgets / Nepal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046724)
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In recent years, the Government of Nepal has increased the amount of revenue it collects from hydropower operations and then distributes among districts and regions of the country. Larger, wealthier districts, which receive larger amounts of general revenues from the central government, also receive larger allocations of hydropower revenues. The per capita shares of hydropower revenue are notably larger in the Central andWestern Regions, which are home to most of Nepal’s hydropower facilities. Thus, the revenue sharing program does not favor poorer districts and regions with little hydropower development. Further, the hydropower revenue allocations to all development regions are small portions of the general revenues they receive. Consequently, the program is unlikely to have a substantial impact on economic development in poorer districts and regions.
14 Suhardiman, Diana; Giordano, M.; Leebouapao, L.; Keovilignavong, Oulavanh. 2016. Farmers’ strategies as building block for rethinking sustainable intensification. Agriculture and Human Values, 33(3):563-574. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-015-9638-3]
Agricultural development ; Rice ; Sustainability ; Intensification ; Farmer participation ; Food security ; Food production ; Rural poverty ; Government agencies ; Groundwater ; Water use ; Vegetables ; Farming systems ; Households ; Labor / Lao People s Democratic Republic / Ekxang Village
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047142)
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Agricultural intensification, now commonly referred to as sustainable intensification, is presented in development discourse as a key means to simultaneously improve food security and reduce rural poverty without harming the environment. Taking a village in Laos as a case study, we show how government agencies and farmers could perceive the idea of agricultural intensification differently. The study illustrates how farmers with the opportunities for groundwater use typically choose to grow vegetables and high valued cash crops rather than intensify rice production. This contrasts with government and donor supported efforts to promote rice intensification as a means to increase food security and reduce rural poverty. The article’s main message is that farmers’ differing strategies are related to a variety of household characteristics and that farmers’ strategies should be central to the current discussion on sustainable intensification.
15 Suhardiman, Diana; Giordano, M.; Keovilignavong, Oulavanh; Sotoukee, Touleelor. 2015. Revealing the hidden effects of land grabbing through better understanding of farmers’ strategies in dealing with land loss. Land Use Policy, 49:195-202. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.08.014]
Land use ; Rubber industry ; Farmers ; Farming systems ; Socioeconomic environment ; Households ; State intervention ; Political aspects ; Villages / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Nadee Village
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047156)
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This article examines changing contexts and emerging processes related to “land grabbing.” In particular, it uses the case of Laos to analyze the driving forces behind land takings, how such drivers are implied in land policies, and how affected people respond depending on their socio-economic assets and political connections. We argue that understanding the multiple strategies farmers use to deal with actual land loss and the risk of losing land is crucial to understanding the hidden effects of land grabbing and its potential consequences for agricultural development and the overall process of agrarian transformation. From a policy perspective, understanding the hidden effects of land grabbing is critical to assess costs and benefits of land concessions, in Laos and elsewhere, especially in relation to current approaches to turn land into capital as a policy strategy to promote economic growth and reduce poverty.
16 Giordano, M.; Suhardiman, Diana; Peterson-Perlman, J. 2016. Do hydrologic rigor and technological advance tell us more or less about transboundary water management? International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 16(6):815-831. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-015-9297-2]
Hydrology ; International waters ; International agreements ; Water resources ; Water management ; River basins ; Aquifers ; Watercourses ; Water policy ; Water law ; Water deficit ; GIS ; Remote sensing ; Technology / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047189)
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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 research and policy impact. The knowledge of the vast number and extent of basins has been used to bring attention to the overall issue of transboundary water management and understand how and why countries conflict and cooperate over water. Combining this information with ideas embedded in legal instruments such as the UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses has given us new ways to look at the adequacy, and inadequacy, of existing transboundary institutions and to suggest policy change and institution building. But do precise data and clearly codified definitions always improve our understanding and decision making? Might they even lead us to incorrect conclusions and poor priority setting? This paper examined how the combination of universalized basin scale principles for international water management and increased mapping precision has resulted in policy prescriptions that sometimes run counter to what negotiators and managers have consistently and thoughtfully done in practice. The conclusion is not a call to cease using new technology nor to end the search for principles to guide our resource management actions. Rather it is a call for caution and balance as we apply technology and logic to specific locations in a complex world.
17 Campbell, L.; Suhardiman, Diana; Giordano, M.; McCornick, Peter. 2015. Environmental impact assessment: theory, practice and implications for Mekong hydropower debate. International Journal of Water Governance, 4:93-116. [doi: https://doi.org/10.7564/14-IJWG65]
Environmental impact assessment ; Environmental management ; Water power ; Public relations ; Participation ; International organizations ; Financial institutions ; Social impact ; River basins ; Funding ; Donors ; Investment ; Decision making ; Government agencies / Southeast Asia / Southeast Asia / Myanmar / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Thailand / Cambodia / Vietnam / Mekong Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047366)
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Hydropower development in the Lower Mekong Basin is occurring at a rapid pace. With partial funding from international financial institutions has come pressure on the riparian governments to ensure that the potential environmental and social impacts of hydropower projects are properly considered. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of the primary environmental management tools being proposed to fulfill these obligations. This article highlights some of the challenges that are inherent in applying EIA in the Mekong context through critical analysis of both its conceptual and institutional aspects. The main argument of the article is that while EIA application indicates a certain degree of environmental consideration, it is not necessarily sufficient to ensure good environmental practices. Lending institutions such as the World Bank have identified lack of implementation capacity as the biggest constraint to effective EIAs. Focusing on Laos, we show how EIA application should be equipped with necessary institutional arrangements and a transparent public participation process. This will ultimately require a shift within the region to allow environmental and social issues to be given significant weight.
18 Prosinger, J.; Suhardiman, Diana; Giordano, M.. 2015. Linking climate change discourse with climate change policy in the Mekong: the case of Lao PDR. In Hoanh, Chu Thai; Johnston, Robyn; Smakhtin, Vladimir. Climate change and agricultural water management in developing countries. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.208-220. (CABI Climate Change Series 8)
Climate change ; Adaptation ; Uncertainty ; Policy making ; Water resources ; Risk management ; Stakeholders ; Farmers ; Government policy ; Financial policies ; Funding ; Corporate culture ; River basins / Southeast Asia / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Mekong Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047380)
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19 Giordano, M.; Gyawali, D.; Nishat, A.; Sinha, U. K. 2016. Can there be progress on transboundary water cooperation in the Ganga? In Bharati, Luna; Sharma, Bharat R.; Smakhtin, Vladimir (Eds.). The Ganges River Basin: status and challenges in water, environment and livelihoods. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.294-303. (Earthscan Series on Major River Basins of the World)
Water management ; International waters ; International cooperation ; State intervention ; Political aspects ; Stakeholders ; Corporate culture ; Information exchange ; International relations ; International agreements ; Riparian zones / India / Bangladesh / Nepal / China / Ganga Basin / Ganges River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047844)
20 Nagrah, A.; Chaudhry, A. M.; Giordano, M.. 2016. Collective action in decentralized irrigation systems: evidence from Pakistan. World Development, 84:282-298. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.02.003]
Irrigation systems ; Decentralization ; Collective action ; Irrigation management ; Water delivery ; User charges ; Groundwater ; Water quality ; Water user associations ; Farmers organizations ; Performance evaluation ; Women's participation ; Watercourses ; Maintenance ; Irrigation canals ; Water governance ; Devolution ; Government ; Communities ; Leadership ; Models ; Case studies / Pakistan / Punjab / Bahawalnagar Canal Circle
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047895)
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Pakistan, home of the world’s most extensive irrigation system, has followed a global trend in irrigation to devolve management from government to farmers and farmer organizations. We implement the most extensive survey of irrigation management ever conducted in Pakistan to examine variation in farmer participation in managing local irrigation systems under the new governance regime. Building on and adding to previous work in Pakistan and elsewhere, we examine the effects of privately accessed groundwater, groundwater quality, surface water, and other factors along 5 different community management responsibilities, including roles that existed prior to decentralization (maintenance of the watercourse and dispute resolution) and new roles that were created after (voting to elect representative at the higher level, collection of water charges, and holding internal meetings). Each responsibility represents a collection action problem for the community. We find that while group leader education is important in successful execution of the roles, voting has in general been taken up enthusiastically while water charge collection remains, not surprisingly, low. We find a previously unreported inverse-U shaped relationship between groundwater availability and farmer participation, and that availability of high groundwater quality (less-saline) groundwater significantly reduces participation, as does high variation in canal water supply within a growing season. We also find, contrary to expectation, that communities in the tail reaches of the system, known to receive worse canal water service, more actively participate in managing their local irrigation systems. The findings have important implications for the continued push for decentralized surface irrigation management in South Asia and elsewhere as groundwater irrigation continues to expand and equitable access to surface water remains a policy concern.
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