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1 Lele, S.. 1998. Why, who, and how of jointness in joint forest management: Theoretical considerations and empirical insights from the Western Ghats of Karnataka. Research paper presented at International Workshop on Shared Resource Management in South Asia: The Next Step, conducted by Institute of Rural Management Anand, India, 17-19 February, 1998. 18p.
Forest management ; Forest policy ; Community forestry ; Social participation ; Environmental effects / India / Karnataka / Western Ghats
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 4783 Record No: H022140)
2 Lele, S.. 2000. Godsend, sleight of hand, or just muddling through: Joint water and forest management in India. ODI Natural Resource Perspectives, 53:6p.
Water management ; Forest management ; Irrigation management ; Social participation ; Participatory management ; Farmers' associations ; Decentralization ; Political aspects ; Bureaucracy ; Non-governmental organizations ; Development aid / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5472 Record No: H026484)
3 Lele, S.. 2000. Godsent, sleight of hand, or just muddling through: Joint water and forest management in India. Wastelands News, 16(1):32-38.
Water management ; Irrigation management ; Forest management ; Participatory management ; Villages ; Social aspects ; Social participation ; Non-governmental organizations / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6288 Record No: H026961)
4 Srinivasan, V.; Suresh Kumar, D.; Chinnasamy, P.; Sulagna, S.; Sakthivel, D.; Paramasivam, P.; Lele, S.. 2014. Water management in the Noyyal River basin: a situation analysis. Bangalore, India: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment. 48p. (Environment and Development Discussion Paper 2)
Water management ; River basins ; Water availability ; Water quality ; Watersheds ; Water scarcity ; Surface water ; Drinking water ; Domestic water ; Hydrology ; Demography ; Land use ; Sustainability ; Agricultural sector ; Government departments ; Institutions ; Pumping ; Wells ; Public health ; Environmental flows ; Households ; Farmers / India / Tamil Nadu / Noyyal River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046359)
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5 Lele, S.; Srinivasan, V; Thomas, B. K.; Jamwal, P. 2018. Adapting to climate change in rapidly urbanizing river basins: insights from a multiple-concerns, multiple-stressors, and multi-level approach. Water International, 43(2):281-304. (Special issue: Climate Change and Adaptive Water Management: Innovative Solutions from the Global South). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1416442]
Climate change adaptation ; River basins ; Urbanization ; Households ; Resilience ; Frameworks ; Water quality ; Public health ; Water supply ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Watersheds ; Agriculture ; Equity ; Sustainability / India / Cauvery River / Arkavathy Sub-Basin / Noyyal Sub-Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048593)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02508060.2017.1416442?needAccess=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048593.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048593.pdf
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Much of the research on climate change adaptation in rapidly urbanizing developing regions focuses primarily on adaptation or resilience as the goal, assumes that climate change is the major stressor, and focuses on the household or the city as the unit of analysis. In this article, we use findings from two rapidly urbanizing sub-basins of the Cauvery River in southern India (the Arkavathy and Noyyal sub-basins) to argue for a broader analytic and policy framework that explicitly considers multiple normative concerns and stressors, and uses the entire watershed as the unit of analysis to address the climate–water interaction.
6 Lele, S.; Madhyastha, K.; Sulagna, S.; Dhavamani, R.; Srinivasan, V. 2018. Match, don’t mix: implications of institutional and technical service modalities for water governance outcomes in South Indian small towns. Water Policy, 20(S1):12-35. (Special issue: Water Services in Small Towns - Experiences from the Global South). [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2018.002]
Water resources ; Water governance ; Urban areas ; Towns ; Water supply ; Water delivery ; Groundwater ; Corporate culture ; Technology ; Financing ; Biophysics ; Sustainability ; Equity / South India / Karnataka / Tamil Nadu / Nelamangala / Ramanagara / Kannampalayam / Palladam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048727)
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This paper seeks to contribute to the limited literature on water governance in small towns in India. For assessing water governance, we propose a broad framework encompassing adequacy and affordability, equity, sustainability and responsiveness. Analytically, the concept of ‘service modality’ is expanded to include not only institutional arrangements but also water resource deployment, and placed within a framework that includes multiple contextual variables as well. We use this framework to carry out an inductive analysis by comparing water service delivery and governance in four small towns across two states (Karnataka and Tamil Nadu) in southern India. Apart from differences in size, the towns differ in the institutional arrangements – from fully municipal management to a combination to complete para-statal management – and in the deployment of water resources – only ground water to a mixed supply of ground and surface water (dual sourcing). Data were gathered using a combination of household surveys, metering, records, and interviews. Dual sourcing resulted in adequate supply and optimization vis-à-vis end uses. Inter-household inequity is driven by socio-economic differences amongst households, but can be mitigated to an extent by increasing public tap density. But water resource use is not physically or financially sustainable. The responsiveness to citizen needs was significantly higher when the distribution was done by the local governments. Separation of roles, with para-statals providing bulk supply of surface water, and local governments managing the distribution of this and groundwater, may be an optimal service modality.
7 Patil, V. S.; Thomas, B. K.; Lele, S.; Eswar, M.; Srinivasan, V. 2019. Adapting or chasing water?: crop choice and farmers’ responses to water stress in peri-urban Bangalore, India. Irrigation and Drainage, 68(2):140-151. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2291]
Water stress ; Irrigated farming ; Farmers attitudes ; Crops ; Periurban areas ; Groundwater ; Boreholes ; Ownership ; Urbanization ; Living standards ; Villages ; Econometric models / India / Bangalore / Arkavathy Sub-Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049210)
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Unregulated groundwater extraction has led to declining groundwater tables and increasing water scarcity in the Indian subcontinent. Understanding how farmers respond to this scarcity is important from multiple perspectives—equity in access, livelihood security and resource sustainability. We present a case from the rapidly urbanizing Arkavathy sub-basin near Bangalore city in southern India where irrigation is fully groundwater dependent. Using cross-sectional data from a stratified random sample of 333 farmers from 15 villages, we investigated the factors that determine their choice of crops under conditions of water scarcity and urbanization. Binary logit analysis showed that farmers with a large landholding respond by tapping deep groundwater using borewells. Multinomial logit analysis revealed that access to groundwater, variation in the proximity to the product market (city) and labour availability influence crop choice decisions. We observe that current responses indicate what has been characterized in the literature as chasing strategies. These largely favour well-off farmers and hence are inequitable. While the choice of water-intensive crops and unregulated pumping have aggravated water stress, the uptake of watersaving technologies among irrigated farmers has been low, showing that resource sustainability may not be a concern where non-farm diversification opportunities exist.
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