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1 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.
2 Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh; Prathapar, Sanmugam A.; Marwah, Madhavi. 2014. Revitalizing canal irrigation: towards improving cost recovery. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 52p. (IWMI Working Paper 160) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2014.211]
Canal irrigation ; Irrigation systems ; Cost recovery ; Farmers ; Irrigation water ; Budgets ; Fund ; Investment ; Efficiency ; Public services / Pakistan / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046620)
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Cost recovery from irrigation in almost all the countries presents a dismal picture. Low cost recovery coupled with declining government finances has led to the deterioration of both the quality of the built infrastructure and institutions managing and governing such infrastructure. This has created a vicious circle of low cost recovery, poor maintenance of infrastructure, inadequate and unreliable water supply, inefficient and corrupt institutions, and unwillingness of the farmers to pay. Breaking this vicious circle primarily requires identifying ways to improve availability of financial resources. Improving cost recovery from all users, including irrigators of the water, offers one of the most important avenues for raising financial resources. The present study examines some of the important issues that impinge on improving the cost recovery in canal irrigation, and assesses the feasibility of some of the efforts being made to improve cost recovery in irrigation to revitalize canal irrigation.
3 Moscoso, A. M.; Larson, R. 2019. Forestry management and water law: comparing Ecuador and Arizona. Water International, 44(3):337-353. (Special issue: Legal Perspectives on Bridging Science and Policy) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2019.1595995]
Forest management ; Water law ; Regulations ; Water governance ; Water resources ; Water supply ; Water quality ; Water conservation ; REDD-plus ; Investment ; River basins ; Fund ; Case studies / USA / Ecuador / Arizona / Paute River Basin / Verde River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049274)
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This article compares public–private partnerships dedicated to improving forestry management to protect water in the Paute River basin in Ecuador (FONAPA) and the Verde River basin in Arizona (the Four Forest Restoration Initiative). Both programmes create incentives for improved forestry management and suggest lessons for water management in general but may face legal challenges that require reforms. While there is scope for mutual learning between the programmes, such cross-fertilization is inhibited by differences in the legal status of water and forest resources in the two systems
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