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1 McCartney, Matthew; Houghton-Carr, H. A. 2009. Working wetland potential: an index to guide the sustainable development of African wetlands. Natural Resources Forum, 33:99-110.
Wetlands ; Ecology ; Ecosystems ; Agricultural development ; Social welfare ; Case studies / Africa / Africa South of Sahara / Tanzania / Zimbabwe / Swaziland
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042206)
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2 Jinapala, K. 2009. The way forward: beyond the "Water for Food Conference" Water Matters: news of IWMI research in Sri Lanka, 4:6.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 630 G744 IWM Record No: H042495)
3 Brauch, H. G.; Spring, U. O.; Grin, J.; Mesjasz, C.; Kameri-Mbote, P.; Behera, N. C.; Chourou, B.; Krummenacher, H. (Eds.) 2009. Facing global environmental change: environmental, human, energy, food, health and water security concepts. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. 1586p. (Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace Vol. 4)
Environmental factors ; Climate change ; Globalization ; Ecosystems ; International relations ; Policy ; Natural resources ; Desertification ; Water security ; Case studies ; Models ; Natural disasters ; Refugees ; Social welfare ; Health ; HIV infections ; Energy management ; Energy demand ; Energy sources ; Economic aspects ; Food security ; Water resource management ; River basin management ; Non governmental organizations ; Gender ; Early warning systems / Africa / Botswana / Vietnam / Bangladesh / India / Arab Countries / Middle East / Turkey / Africa South of Sahara / Asia / USA / Russia / Belarus / Ukraine / Israel / Palestine / Japan / Mali / Nnile River Basin / Tigris River Basin / Senegal River Basin / Volta River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.7 G000 BRA Record No: H043458)
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4 World Water Forum. 2003. The Third World Water Forum (WWF3): proceedings of sessions on Agriculture, Food and Water, Kyoto, Japan, 19-20 March 2003. Tokyo, Japan: Japanese Institute of Irrigation and Drainage (JIID). 448p.
Water resources ; Water management ; Irrigated farming ; Paddy fields ; Social welfare ; Monsoon climate ; Food production ; Water circulation ; Water use ; Water productivity ; Irrigation systems ; Irrigation water ; Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Rice ; Water rates ; Pricing ; Humid tropics ; Virtual water ; Surface water ; Groundwater irrigation ; Ecology ; Water conservation ; Water pollution ; Water quality ; Case studies ; Sustainable development ; Water resources development ; Developing countries ; Rural areas ; Biodiversity ; Policy ; Fish ; Habitats / Asia / China / Cambodia / Taiwan / Japan / Thailand / Korea / Sri Lanka / Kumamoto Groundwater Basin / Pinga Oya / Tri Hita Karana Irrigation System
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 WOR Record No: H044225)
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5 World Water Forum. 2003. The Third World Water Forum (WWF3): proceedings of sessions on Agriculture, Food and Water, Kyoto, Japan, 19-20 March 2003. Tokyo, Japan: Japanese Institute of Irrigation and Drainage (JIID). 448p.
Water resources ; Water management ; Irrigated farming ; Paddy fields ; Social welfare ; Monsoon climate ; Food production ; Water circulation ; Water use ; Water productivity ; Irrigation systems ; Irrigation water ; Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Rice ; Water rates ; Pricing ; Humid tropics ; Virtual water ; Surface water ; Groundwater irrigation ; Ecology ; Water conservation ; Water pollution ; Water quality ; Case studies ; Sustainable development ; Water resources development ; Developing countries ; Rural areas ; Biodiversity ; Policy ; Fish ; Habitats / Asia / China / Cambodia / Taiwan / Japan / Thailand / Korea / Sri Lanka / Kumamoto Groundwater Basin / Pinga Oya / Tri Hita Karana Irrigation System
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 WOR c2 Record No: H044229)
6 Shiferaw, B.; Kebede, T. A.; Reddy, V. R. 2012. Community watershed management in semiarid India: the state of collective action and its effects on natural resources and rural livelihoods. In Mwangi, E.; Markelova, H.; Meinzen-Dick, R. (Eds.). Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction. Philadelphia, PA, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp.153-188.
Watershed management ; Natural resources management ; Collective action ; Rural areas ; Living standards ; Socioeconomic environment ; Regression analysis ; Non governmental organizations ; Semiarid zones ; Poverty ; Indicators ; Social welfare ; Households / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.7 G000 MWA Record No: H045634)
7 de Silva, Sanjiv. 2012. Structural vulnerability to climate change in Bangladesh: a literature review. [Project report prepared by IWMI for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) under the project "Water-related Interventions to Reduce Vulnerability to Climate Change: Do they Address the Structural Causes of Gendered Vulnerability in the IGP [Indo Gangetic Plains]"]. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 82p.
Climate change ; Hazards ; Literature reviews ; Research projects ; Coastal area ; Salinity ; Rainwater ; Flooding ; Drought ; Storms ; Landslides ; River banks ; Labor ; Gender ; Women ; Social welfare ; Ecosystems ; Households ; Agricultural production ; Livestock ; Fisheries ; Irrigation water ; Land management ; Sanitation ; Health hazards ; Living standards / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045713)
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8 Jayatissa, R. L. N.; Pathirana, I. 2014. Sri Lankawe jala poshitha ha sulu warimarga ashritha govi sanvidhanavala karya sadhanaya. In Sinhalese. [Appraisal of the role of farmer organizations located in watersheds and minor irrigation schemes in Sri Lanka]. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 176p. (HARTI Research Report 57)
Farmers organizations ; Performance evaluation ; Watersheds ; Irrigation schemes ; Water management ; Maintenance ; Legislation ; Case studies ; Financing ; Income ; Loans ; Social aspects ; Social welfare ; Rural areas ; Fertilizers ; Subsidies / Sri Lanka / Kurunegala / Anuradhapura / Matara / Badulla / Hambantota / Nagollagama / Ibbagamuwa / Narammala / Mihintale / Elayapattuwa / Deniyaya / Kananke / Boralanda / Keppetipola / Soranathota / Modarawana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 354.5 G744 JAY Record No: H046692)
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9 Costanza, R.; Cumberland, J. H.; Daly, H.; Goodland, R.; Norgaard, R. B.; Kubiszewski, I.; Franco, C. 2015. An introduction to ecological economics. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press. 337p.
Environmental economics ; Economic development ; Ecology ; Ecosystem services ; Biodiversity ; Natural environment ; Sustainable development ; Gross national product ; Environmental policy ; Environmental organizations ; Regulations ; Pollution control ; User charges ; Trade policy ; Population ; Social welfare
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 577 G000 COS Record No: H046862)
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10 Kurchania, A. K.; Rathore, N. S. 2014. Renewable energy policies to shrink the carbon footprint in cities: developing CSR programmes. In Maheshwari, B.; Purohit, R.; Malano, H.; Singh, V. P.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie. (Eds.). The security of water, food, energy and liveability of cities: challenges and opportunities for peri-urban futures. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp.165-179. (Water Science and Technology Library Volume 71)
Renewable energy ; Policy ; Carbon dioxide ; Greenhouse gases ; Sustainability ; Periurban areas ; Environmental effects ; Ecological factors ; Solar energy ; Biomass ; Biofuels ; Hydrogen ; Geothermal energy ; Water power ; Wind power ; Social welfare ; Ecology ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047027)
The need for urban development patterns that are more ecologically sustainable becomes obvious in present context. Therefore, renewable energy is gaining importance day by day, particularly in the era of rapid urbanisation. As such, renewable energy could help in an organisation’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). As part of a CSR initiative, a business can set up renewable energy systems in urban and peri-urban areas that will be maintained by local residents who have undergone training. Installing a mix of solar panels, wind mills and biogas plants can make urban and peri-urban areas energy self-sufficient. By adding renewable energy projects to their CSR activities, businesses will make a very positive intervention that will go a long way in improving the socio-economic lot of the disempowered. Increased use of renewable energy sources and thus energy conversation is the main pillar of a sustainable energy supply. This paper deals with the importance of Renewable Energy Sources in this context and strategies to be adopted for integrating these sources as a means of a sustainable development mechanism for procuring carbon credits and meeting different energy tasks in urban and peri-urban areas.
11 Andre, F. J.; Cardenete, M. A.; Romero, C. 2010. Designing public policies: an approach based on multi-criteria analysis and computable general equilibrium modeling. Berlin, Germany: Springer; Bilbao, Spain: Fundacion BBVA. 143p. (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 642) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12183-8]
Policy making ; Public sector ; Economic theories ; Equilibrium theory ; Economic policy ; Models ; Environmental policy ; Optimization methods ; Decision making ; Analysis ; Evaluation ; Social welfare
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 320.6 G000 AND Record No: H047097)
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12 Andre, F. J.; Cardenete, M. A.; Romero, C. 2010. Designing public policies: an approach based on multi-criteria analysis and computable general equilibrium modeling. Berlin, Germany: Springer; Bilbao, Spain: Fundacion BBVA. 143p. (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 642)
Policy making ; Public sector ; Economic theories ; Equilibrium theory ; Economic policy ; Models ; Environmental policy ; Optimization methods ; Decision making ; Analysis ; Evaluation ; Social welfare
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 320.6 G000 AND c2 Record No: H047098)
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13 Barraque, B; Montginoul, M. 2015. How to integrate social objectives into water pricing. In Dinar, A.; Pochat, V.; Albiac-Murillo, J. (Eds.). Water pricing experiences and innovations. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. pp.359-371. (Global Issues in Water Policy Volume 9)
Water rates ; Pricing ; Taxes ; Social aspects ; Water supply ; Water poverty ; Sanitation ; Population ; Income ; Social welfare ; International organizations
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy SF Record No: H047131)
The social dimension should be addressed in the sustainability of water services provision, but it is less well studied than the economic and environmental ones. The debate between pros and cons of water privatization led the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to publish a seminal paper on social issues in water pricing, back in 2003. Relying on this document and other literature review, we successively present various solutions to support “water-poor” people in the payment of their charges: reducing bills for targeted populations (rebates, increasing blocks), supporting the income of targeted populations, reducing bills for all customers, and reintroducing taxation as a source of income. A general outcome is that social tariff design entails administrative costs that may offset the benefits it is supposed to generate. Lastly, we advocate the development of new software to assess the redistributive effects of ongoing tariffs, and tariff changes between categories of residents and with the water utilities’ capacity to invest.
14 Lowenstein, W.; Shakya, M.; Hansen, M.; Gorkhali, S. 2015. Do the poor benefit from corporate social responsibility?: a theory-based impact evaluation of six community-based water projects in Sri Lanka. Bochum, Germany: Ruhr-University Bochum. Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE). 85p. (IEE Working Papers Volume 210)
Corporate culture ; Social welfare ; Water supply ; Electricity generation ; Power stations ; Development projects ; Community involvement ; Impact assessment ; Evaluation ; Strategies ; Productivity ; Stakeholders ; Agricultural production ; Irrigated farming ; Farmers ; Households ; Socioeconomic environment ; Rural poverty ; Farm income ; Labor ; Econometrics ; Developing countries ; Case studies / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 174.4 G744 LOW Record No: H047236)
http://development-research.org/images/pdf/working_papers/wp-210.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047236.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047236.pdf
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15 Andersen, L. E.; Breisinger, C.; Jemio, L. C.; Mason-D’Croz, D.; Ringler, C.; Robertson, R.; Verner, D.; Wiebelt, M. 2016. Climate change impacts and household resilience: prospects for 2050 in Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. Washington, DC, USA: IFPRI. 84p. (Food Policy Report)
Climate change ; Temperature ; Precipitation ; Households ; Socioeconomic environment ; Crop yield ; Gender ; Income ; Food policy ; Agricultural economics ; Agricultural products ; Carbon dioxide ; Models ; Decision support systems ; Social welfare / Brazil / Mexico / Peru
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 304.25 G000 AND Record No: H047615)
http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/130258
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047615.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047615.pdf
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16 Young, I. M. 2011. Justice and the politics of difference. Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press. 286p.
Philosophy ; Political systems ; Democracy ; Legal aspects ; Capitalism ; Social groups ; Participatory approaches ; Public participation ; Social institutions ; Communities ; Urban areas ; Cultural factors ; Social behaviour ; Discrimination ; Labor ; Empowerment ; Social welfare ; Education
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 320.011 G000 YOU Record No: H047670)
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17 Ward, J.; Varua, M. E.; Maheshwari, B.; Oza, S.; Purohit, R.; Hakimuddin; Dave, S. 2016. Exploring the relationship between subjective wellbeing and groundwater attitudes and practices of farmers in rural India. Journal of Hydrology, 540:1-16. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.037]
Groundwater management ; Farmers attitudes ; Living standards ; Social welfare ; Watersheds ; Irrigation practices ; Aquifers ; Recharge ; Community organizations ; Rural areas ; Villages ; Households ; Human behaviour ; Participatory approaches ; Statistical methods / India / Gujarat / Rajasthan / Meghraj Watershed / Dharta Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047716)
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Failure to effectively coordinate opportunistic extractions by individual well owners with groundwater recharge has led to increasing Indian groundwater scarcity, affecting future opportunities for improved rural livelihoods and household wellbeing. Investigation of the relationship between groundwater institutions, management attitudes and subjective wellbeing of Indian rural households has substantial potential to reveal initiatives that jointly improve aquifer sustainability and household wellbeing, yet has received limited attention. Subjective wellbeing was calculated as an index of dissatisfaction (IDS), revealing ranked importance and the level of dissatisfaction of individual factors selected from economic, environmental and social/relational wellbeing dimensions. High economic and environmental IDS scores were calculated for respondents in the Meghraj and Dharta watersheds, India, respectively. We tested an exploratory hypothesis that observed IDS differences were correlated with differences in life circumstances, (household attributes, income and assets) and psychological disposition (life guiding values and willingness to adapt). The distribution of ranked IDS wellbeing scores was estimated across four statistically distinct clusters reflecting attitudes towards sustainable groundwater management and practice. Decision tree analysis identified significantly different correlates of overall wellbeing specific to cluster membership and the watershed, supporting the research hypothesis. High income IDS scores were weakly correlated with actual total household income (r < 0.25) consistent with international studies. The results suggest a singular reliance on initiatives to improve household income is unlikely to manifest as improved individual subjective wellbeing for the Dharta and Meghraj watersheds. In conclusion, correlates were tabulated into a systematic decision framework to assist the design of participatory processes at the village level, by targeting specific factors likely to jointly improve aquifer sustainability and household wellbeing.
18 Weeratunge, N.; Joffre, O.; Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali; Bouahom, B.; Keophoxay, Anousith. 2016. Gender and household decision-making in a Lao village: implications for livelihoods in hydropower development. Gender, Place and Culture, 23(11):1599-1614. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2016.1219319]
Gender ; Women ; Men ; Decision making ; Households ; Living standards ; Water power ; Economic aspects ; Income ; Upland rice ; Rural settlement ; Reservoir operation ; Social welfare ; Labour ; Cost benefit analysis ; Equity ; Cultivation / Lao People's Democratic Republic
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047838)
Hydropower development with concomitant changes in water and land regimes often results in livelihood transformation of affected people, entailing changes in intra-household decision-making upon which livelihood strategies are based. Economic factors underlying gender dimensions of household decision-making have been studied rigorously since the 1970s. However, empirical data on gender and decision-making within households, needed for evidence-based action, remain scarce. This is more so in hydropower contexts. This article explores gender and livelihood-related decision-making within rural households in the context of hydropower development in Lao PDR. Based on a social well-being conceptual approach with data from a household survey and qualitative interviews, it focuses on household decisions in an ethnic minority resettlement site soon after displacement, from an interpretive perspective. The article, first, aims to assess the extent to which household decision-making is gendered and secondly, to understand the complex reasoning behind household decisions, especially the relevance of material, relational, and subjective factors. It argues that while most household decisions are ostensibly considered as ‘joint’ in the study site, the nuanced nature of gendered values, norms, practices, relations, attitudes, and feelings underlying these decisions are important to assessing why households might or might not adopt livelihood interventions proposed by hydropower developers.
19 DeClerck, F. A. J.; Jones. S. K.; Attwood, S.; Bossio, D.; Girvetz, E.; Chaplin-Kramer, B.; Enfors, E.; Fremier, A. K.; Gordon, L. J.; Kizito, F.; Noriega, I. L.; Matthews, N.; McCartney, Matthew; Meacham, M.; Noble, Andrew; Quintero, M.; Remans, S.; Soppe, R.; Willemen, L.; Wood, S. L. R.; Zhang, W. 2016. Agricultural ecosystems and their services: the vanguard of sustainability? Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 23:92-99. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2016.11.016]
Sustainable development ; Agriculture ; Farming systems ; Natural resources ; Ecosystem services ; Social welfare ; Environmental sustainability ; Landscape ; Biodiversity conservation ; Food security ; Food production ; Nutrition ; Farmland ; Diversification ; Social aspects
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048008)
Sustainable Development Goals offer an opportunity to improve human well-being while conserving natural resources. Ecosystem services highlight human well-being benefits ecosystems, including agricultural ecosystems, provides. Whereas agricultural systems produce the majority of our food, they drive significant environmental degradation. This tension between development and environmental conservation objectives is not an immutable outcome as agricultural systems are simultaneously dependents, and providers of ecosystem services. Recognizing this duality allows integration of environmental and development objectives and leverages agricultural ecosystem services for achieving sustainability targets. We propose a framework to operationalize ecosystem services and resilience-based interventions in agricultural landscapes and call for renewed efforts to apply resilience-based approaches to landscape management challenges and for refocusing ecosystem service research on human well-being outcomes.
20 Mandara, C. G.; Niehof, A.; van der Horst, H. 2017. Women and rural water management: token representatives or paving the way to power? Water Alternatives, 10(1):116-133.
Gender ; Women's participation ; Water management ; Domestic water ; Water supply ; Rural communities ; Water governance ; Committees ; Community involvement ; Assemblies ; Social welfare ; Villages ; Leadership ; Decision making ; Households ; Socioeconomic environment ; Development projects ; Maintenance ; Capital allocation ; Case studies / Tanzania / Dodoma / Kondoa / Mpwapwa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048056)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol10/v10issue1/345-a10-1-7/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048056.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048056.pdf
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This paper discusses how informal structures intersect with women’s participation in formally created decision-making spaces for managing domestic water at the village level in Tanzania. The results reveal the influence of the informal context on women’s access to and performance in the formal decision-making spaces. Overall, there is low community involvement in local governance structures, and in most village assemblies that of women is even less. Only in the Social Welfare Committee women are fairly well represented, presumably because of its linkage with the traditional division of labour and women’s practical gender needs. In the Village Water Committees, women’s representation is regulated by a quota system but women rarely occupy leadership positions. Even when husbands are supportive, patriarchal culture, scepticism and negative stereotypical assumptions on female leadership frustrate the government’s effort to enlarge women’s representation in the local decision-making spaces. Three entry points for change were identified: successful women leaders as role models; women’s passive participation in village meetings that could develop into active participation; and women’s membership of social and economic groups which strengthens their skills and bargaining position.
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