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1 Prakash, Anjal. 2005. Sharecropping, migration and the new face of water markets: a case of Sangpura Village in North Gujarat. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 23/2005. 7p.
Water market ; Migration ; Villages ; Tenancy ; Sharecropping ; Land ownership ; Labor ; Gender / India / North Gujarat / Sangpura Village
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G635 PRA Record No: H036612)
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Research highlight based on a PhD thesis titled “The dark zone: Groundwater irrigation, politics and social power in North Gujarat.”
2 Deshingkar, P. 2005. Improved livelihoods in improved watersheds: can migration be mitigated? In Sharma, Bharat; Samra, J. S.; Scott, Christopher; Wani, S. P. (Eds.). Watershed management challenges: improving productivity, resources and livelihoods. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR); International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) pp.144-156.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G635 SHA Record No: H037671)
3 Phansalkar, Sanjiv. 2005. Contours of rural livelihoods in India in the coming half-century. International Journal of Rural Management, 1(2):145-166.
Water scarcity ; Farmers ; Living conditions ; Migration ; Rural economy ; Crops ; Diversification / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.092 G000 PHA Record No: H038131)
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4 Adams, R. H.; Page, J. 2006. Do international migration and remittances reduce poverty in developing countries? World Development, 33(10):1645-1669.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H038396)
5 Heinonen, U. 2006. Environmental impact on migration in Cambodia: Water-related migration from the Tonle Sap Lake Region. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 22(3):449-462.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H039466)
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6 Qureshi, Asad Sarwar; Akhtar, M. 2007. Management strategies for drought in two poverty afflicted provinces of Afghanistan. Journal of Applied Irrigation Science, 42(2):173-188.
Drought ; Climate ; Water scarcity ; Water shortage ; Women ; Poverty ; Rainfed farming ; Irrigated farming ; Groundwater recharge ; Livestock ; Villages ; Households ; Income generation ; Migration / Afghanistan / Helmand / Kandahar
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H040777)
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7 German Advisory Council on Global Change. 2008. Climate change as a security risk. London, UK: Earthscan. 248p.
Climate change ; Environmental degradation ; Natural disasters ; Conflict ; Migration ; Food production ; Governance ; Policy
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 577.22 G000 GER Record No: H040824)
8 Dangol, V.; Poudel, K. 2005. Detection of westward migration of Narayani River, Chitwan District, Central Nepal. In De Silva, R. P. (Ed.). Sweden international training course on remote sensing education for educators, decadal proceedings 1990-2004: a collection of selected papers submitted by former participants. Peradeniya, Sri Lanka: Geo Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (GISSL) pp.31-44.
Rivers ; Migration ; Catchment areas ; Satellite surveys ; Remote sensing ; Flooding ; Risks / Nepal / Narayani River / Chitwan District
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 526.0285 G570 DES Record No: H040876)
9 Sharma, Amrita. 2007. The changing agricultural demography of India: evidence from a rural youth perception survey. International Journal of Rural Management, 3(1): 27-41.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 338.1 G635 SHA Record No: H041131)
10 ESCAP. 2007. Statistical yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2007. New York, NY, USA: UN. 189p.
Statistics ; Indicators ; Population ; Urbanization ; Migration ; Public health ; Diseases ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Education ; Economic development ; Employment ; Poverty ; Public finance ; Air pollution ; Water pollution ; Water use ; Energy ; Natural disasters / Asia / Pacific Islands
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 330 G570 ESC Record No: H041292)
11 UNDP. 2009. Human development report 2009: overcoming barriers: human mobility and development. New York, NY, USA: Palgrave Macmillan for UNDP. 217p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042468)
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Migration not infrequently gets a bad press. Negative stereotypes portraying migrants as ‘stealing our jobs’ or ‘scrounging off the taxpayer’ abound in sections of the media and public opinion, especially in times of recession. For others, the word ‘migrant’ may evoke images of people at their most vulnerable. This year’s Human Development Report, Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development, challenges such stereotypes. It seeks to broaden and rebalance perceptions of migration to reflect a more complex and highly variable reality.
12 World Bank. 2010. World development report 2010: development and climate change. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 417p.
Climate change ; Decision making ; Carbon cycle ; Environmental temperature ; Marine environment ; Coral reefs ; Natural disasters ; Risk management ; Migration ; Biodiversity ; Hydrological cycle ; Water availability ; Water policy ; Water rights ; Water management ; Agricultural production ; Aquaculture ; Farming ; Natural resources management ; Energy ; Social aspects
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042530)
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-1226014527953/WDR10-Full-Text.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042530.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042530.pdf
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Today's enormous development challenges are complicated by the reality of climate change—the two are inextricably linked and together demand immediate attention. Climate change threatens all countries, but particularly developing ones. Understanding what climate change means for development policy is the central aim of the World Development Report 2010. It explores how public policy can change to better help people cope with new or worsened risks, how land and water management must adapt to better protect a threatened natural environment while feeding an expanding and more prosperous population, and how energy systems will need to be transformed.The report is an urgent call for action, both for developing countries who are striving to ensure policies are adapted to the realities and dangers of a hotter planet, and for high-income countries who need to undertake ambitious mitigation while supporting developing countries efforts. A climate-smart world is within reach if we act now to tackle the substantial inertia in the climate, in infrastructure, and in behaviors and institutions; if we act together to reconcile needed growth with prudent and affordable development choices; and if we act differently by investing in the needed energy revolution and taking the steps required to adapt to a rapidly changing planet.In the crowded field of climate change reports, WDR 2010 uniquely: emphasizes development takes an integrated look at adaptation and mitigation highlights opportunities in the changing competitive landscape and how to seize them proposes policy solutions grounded in analytic work and in the context of the political economy of reform.
13 Robin, M.; Andrew, N. (Eds.) 2008. Social dimensions of climate change: workshop report 2008. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 124p. (World Bank Report 51282)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042533)
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2009/10/27/000334955_20091027033758/Rendered/PDF/512820WP0Socia10Box342020B01PUBLIC1.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042533.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042533.pdf
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In March 2008, the World Bank convened an international workshop on the social dimensions of climate change, which brought together government representatives, leaders of indigenous peoples, non-government organization (NGO) representatives and academia. The main aim of the workshop was to identify and discuss impacts of climate change through a social lens, including potential negative impacts of the emerging climate policy architecture. Building on the platform created by the workshop, efforts are now being made to galvanize an international peer-learning network to take this agenda forward through advocacy, policy analysis and operational work. This workshop report is structured as follows. The report highlights the key messages emerging from the workshop, and attempts to synthesize the wide-ranging and thought-provoking discussions that took place. This is followed by a discussion of future directions and challenges. The report then presents summaries of the papers and keynote addresses. Brief biographies of the speakers, a full list of participants, the workshop agenda, and suggested resources, are included in annexes.
14 Shah, Tushaar. 2013. Climate change and groundwater: India's opportunities for mitigation and adaptation. In Prakash, A.; Singh, S.; Goodrich, C. G; Janakarajan, S. (Eds.). Water resources policies in South Asia. New Delhi, India: Routledge. pp.213-243.
Water management ; Climate change ; Migration ; Adaptation ; Precipitation ; Irrigation systems ; Canals ; Groundwater management ; Groundwater irrigation ; Groundwater recharge ; Economic aspects ; Wells ; River basins ; Pumps ; Water storage ; Aquifers ; Agriculture ; Water use ; Water availability ; Water demand ; Water governance ; Runoff ; Carbon ; Energy consumption ; Electricity supplies / South Asia / India / Pakistan / Southern Nepal / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI, 333.91 G000 PRA Record No: H045721)
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15 Sugden, Fraser; Shrestha, L.; Bharati, Luna; Gurung, P.; Maharjan, L.; Janmaat, J.; Price, J. I.; Sherpa, Tashi Yang Chung; Bhattarai, Utsav; Koirala, S.; Timilsina, B. 2014. Climate change, out-migration and agrarian stress: the potential for upscaling small-scale water storage in Nepal. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 38p. (IWMI Research Report 159) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2014.210]
Climate change ; Water storage ; Ponds ; Tanks ; Migration ; Water availability ; Gender ; Women farmers ; Agrarian structure ; Hydrology ; Models ; Economic aspects ; Political aspects ; Social aspects ; Land management ; Property rights ; Case studies / Nepal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046684)
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Climate change could have a critical impact on agriculture in Nepal due to dry-season water shortages, and changes in the variability of water availability and associated uncertainty. This makes water storage systems (most notably ponds and tanks) increasingly important. This report explores the potential role of small-scale water storage infrastructure in two subbasins within the larger Koshi River Basin in central and eastern Nepal, yet shows that upscaling such infrastructure requires an appreciation of the other drivers of change in agriculture aside from climate (e.g., rising cost of living and poor terms of trade for agriculture). It also identifies the social relations and dynamics (distribution of land, water and labor) which could mediate the success of future interventions. It is clear from the research that, while small-scale water storage has the potential to significantly strengthen livelihoods in the Nepali hills, it is necessary to tailor projects to the existing political-economic context.
16 Momsen, J. 2010. Gender and development. 2nd ed. Oxon, UK: Routledge. 285p. (Routledge Perspectives on Development)
Gender ; Women in development ; Economic sectors ; Social change ; Households ; Violence ; Equity ; Education ; Health hazards ; Sex ratio ; Migration ; Sexual reproduction ; Environmental effects ; Drinking water ; Forests ; Biodiversity ; Agricultural development ; Labour market ; Time study ; Microfinance ; Urbanization ; Waste management ; Globalization ; Rural areas / Caribbean / Middle East / South Asia / Sri Lanka / Bangladesh / Singapore / China / Romania / Lesotho
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 305.42 G000 MOM Record No: H047633)
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17 Rodina, L.; Harris, L. M. 2016. Water services, lived citizenship, and notions of the state in marginalised urban spaces: the case of Khayelitsha, South Africa. Water Alternatives, 9(2):336-355. (Special issue: Water, Infrastructure and Political Rule).
Water supply ; Water availability ; Infrastructure ; Housing ; Sanitation ; Water scarcity ; Urban areas ; Nationality ; Equity ; Settlement ; Migration ; Political aspects ; Ecology ; Municipal governments ; Case studies / South Africa / Cape Town / Khayelitsha
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047681)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/319-a9-2-9/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047681.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047681.pdf
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In this paper we argue that in South Africa the state is understood and narrated in multiple ways, notably differentiated by interactions with service provision infrastructure and the ongoing housing formalisation process. We trace various contested narratives of the state and of citizenship that emerge from interactions with urban water service infrastructures. In effect, the housing formalisation process rolls out through specific physical infrastructures, including, but not limited to, water services (pipes, taps, water meters). These infrastructures bring with them particular logics and expectations that contribute to a sense of enfranchisement and associated benefits to some residents, while others continue to experience inadequate services, and linked exclusions. More specifically, we learn that residents who have received newly built homes replacing shack dwellings in the process of formalisation more often narrate the state as legitimate, stemming from the government role as service provider. Somewhat surprisingly, these residents at times also suggest compliance with obligations and expectations for payment for water and responsible water consumption. In contrast, shack dwellers more often characterise the state as uncooperative and neglectful, accenting state failure to incorporate alternative views of what constitutes appropriate services. With an interest in political ecologies of the state and water services infrastructures, this paper traces the dynamic processes through which states and citizenship are mutually and relationally understood, and dynamically evolving. As such, the analysis offers insights for ongoing state-society negotiations in relation to changing infrastructure access in a transitioning democracy.
18 Sugden, Fraser. 2017. A mode of production flux: the transformation and reproduction of rural class relations in lowland Nepal and North Bihar. Dialectical Anthropology, 41(2):129-161. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-016-9436-3]
Agricultural production ; Climate change ; Cultivated land ; Lowland ; Landowners ; Agrarian structure ; Tenant farmers ; Labour ; Living standards ; Political aspects ; Capitalism ; Feudalism ; Colonialism ; Rural communities ; Households ; Social aspects ; History ; Caste systems ; Migration ; Economic situation ; Indebtedness ; Farm income ; Remuneration / Nepal / India / North Bihar / Tarai / Eastern Gangetic Plains / Madhesh / Mithilanchal / Madhubani / Dhanusha / Morang / Purnea / Sunsari
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047834)
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The Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia represents a peripheral region far from the centers of global capitalist production, and this is all the more apparent in Mithilanchal, a cultural domain spanning the Nepal/Bihar border. The agrarian structure can be considered ‘semi-feudal’ in character, dominated by landlordism and usury, and backed up by political and ideological processes. Paradoxically, Mithilanchal is also deeply integrated into the global capitalist market and represents a surplus labor pool for the urban centers of Western India as well as the Persian Gulf in a classic articulation between pre-capitalist and capitalist modes of production. A review of the changes in the agrarian structure over recent decades in the context of globalisation, out-migration and climate stress, shows that while landlordism remains entrenched, the relationship between the marginal and tenant farmer majority and the landed classes has changed, with the breakdown of ideological ties and reduced dependence on single landlords. The paper thus ends on a positive note, as the contemporary juncture represents an opportune moment for new avenues of political mobilization among the peasantry.
19 Hussain, A.; Rasul, G.; Mahapatra, B.; Tuladhar, S. 2016. Household food security in the face of climate change in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region. Food Security, 8(5):921-937. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-016-0607-5]
Climate change adaptation ; Household food security ; Food consumption ; Farming systems ; Agricultural production ; Cash crops ; Livestock ; Income ; Environmental effects ; Flooding ; Landslides ; Temperature ; Drought ; Rain ; Socioeconomic environment ; Living standards ; Migration ; Mountains ; River basins / India / Nepal / Pakistan / China / Hindu-Kush Himalayan Region / Upper Indus Basin / Koshi Basin / Eastern Brahmaputra Basin / Salween Basin / Mekong Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047993)
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12571-016-0607-5.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047993.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047993.pdf
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This study attempts to understand local people’s perceptions of climate change, its impacts on agriculture and household food security, and local adaptation strategies in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, using data from 8083 households (HHs) from four river sub-basins (SBs), i.e. Upper Indus (Pakistan), Eastern Brahmaputra (India), Koshi (Nepal) and Salween and Mekong (China). The majority of households in SBs, in recent years, have perceived that there have been more frequent incidences of floods, landslides, droughts, livestock diseases and crop pests, and have attributed these to climate change. These changes have led to low agricultural production and income, particularly in Eastern Brahmaputra (EB) where a substantial proportion of HHs reported a decline in the production of almost all staple and cash crops, resulting in very low farm income. Consequently, households’ dependency on external food items supplied from plain areas has increased, particularly in the Upper Indus (UI) and EB. After hazards, households face transitory food insecurity owing to damage to their local food systems and livelihood sources, and constrained food supply from other areas. To cope with these, HHs in SBs make changes in their farming practices and livestock management. In EB, 11 % of HHs took on new off-farm activities within the SB and in SM, 23 % of HHs chose out-migration as an adaptation strategy. Lastly, the study proposes policy instruments for attaining sustainable food security, based on agro-ecological potential and opportunities for increasing agricultural resilience and diversity of livelihoods.
20 Sanchez-Triana, E.; Ortolano, L.; Paul, T. 2018. Managing water-related risks in the West Bengal Sundarbans: policy alternatives and institutions. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 34(1):78-96. (Special issue: Politics and Policies for Water Resources Management in India). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2016.1202099]
Water management ; Risk management ; Climate change ; Weather hazards ; Disaster preparedness ; Strategies ; Water policy ; Institutions ; Biodiversity conservation ; Coastal area ; Sea level ; Migration ; Incentives / India / West Bengal / Sundarbans
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048474)
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Persistent pressures from water-related threats – sea-level rise, soil and water salinization, and flooding due to embankment overtopping and failure – have made the West Bengal Sundarbans a challenging place to live, and effects of global climate change will only worsen conditions. Four alternative policy directions are examined: business as usual; intensive rural development; short-term out-migration of residents; and embankment realignment and facilitation of voluntary, permanent out-migration. The last of these is the recommended approach. Study findings have informed ongoing deliberations to build consensus on future policy directions for reducing the region’s vulnerability to natural disasters.
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