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1 McDonald, J. 2011. The role of law in adapting to climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2(2):283-295.
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Legal institutions and instruments will play an important role in climate change adaptation, along with technological, managerial, and behavioral strategies. Law can facilitate adaptation, using regulation to reduce exposure or sensitivity to climate hazards, establishing the legal architecture for new market mechanisms, and funding arrangements for adaptation costs and liability for climate impacts. It can also ensure the accountability of adaptation decision making and addressing some of the social justice dimensions of adaptation.Yet there are also characteristics of legal institutions, processes, and principles that may impede adaptation, including by creating compensable property rights that hinder new regulation. There are several characteristics of climate change and associated impacts that will make law-making for adaptation uniquely challenging. These include high levels of cascading uncertainty, irreversibility, the context-specificity of impacts, the long delay between emissions and impacts, and the interaction between climate change impacts and other environmental, social, and economic stressors. Laws dealing with substantive climate impacts may be appropriate and necessary in some cases, but the broader challenge for law-makers is to make legal processes and instruments more adaptive and responsive to change itself.
2 Molinero, J.; Custodio, E.; Sahuquillo, A.; Llamas, M. R. 2011. Groundwater in Spain: legal framework and management issues. In Findikakis, A. N.; Sato, K. Groundwater management practices. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press - Balkema. pp.123-137. (IAHR Monograph)
Groundwater management ; Groundwater irrigation ; Legal frameworks ; Water scarcity ; Artificial recharge ; Economic aspects ; Irrigated farming ; Water supply ; Drought / Spain / Canary Islands
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 FIN Record No: H045652)
3 Suhardiman, Diana; de Silva, Sanjiv; Carew-Reid, J. 2011. Policy review and institutional analysis of the hydropower sector in Lao PDR, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Final report. Mekong (MK1) Project on Optimizing Reservoir Management for Livelihoods, Challenge Program for Water and Food. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Hanoi, Vietnam: International Centre for Environmental Management (ICEM); Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF). 150p.
Water power ; Planning ; Institutional development ; Policy making ; Water pollution ; Water management ; Environmental protection ; Environmental impact assessment ; Natural resources management ; Land management ; Decision making ; Public sector ; Government departments ; Legislation ; Legal frameworks ; Energy policies ; Electricity ; Forest management ; Fishery management ; Development projects ; Social aspects ; Reservoirs ; Living standards ; Investment / Laos / Cambodia / Vietnam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046291)
4 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.
5 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Environment and Renewable Energy. Natural Resources Management Division. 2014. Integrated Financing Strategy (IFS) for Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in Sri Lanka. Battaramulla, Sri Lanka: Ministry of Environment and Renewable Energy. Natural Resources Management Division. 111p.
Sustainable land management ; Financing ; Strategies ; Land degradation ; Development programmes ; National planning ; Legal frameworks ; Regulations ; Environmental legislation ; Resource management ; Mobilization ; Implementation ; Institutional development ; Coordination ; Development policies ; Budgets ; Costs ; Private sector ; Nongovernmental organizations ; International agreements ; UNCCD ; Conventions ; Funding ; Partnerships ; Innovation / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.73 G744 SRI Record No: H048067)
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6 Stephan, R. M. 2017. Climate change considerations under international groundwater law. Water International, 42(6):757-772. (Special issue: Groundwater and Climate Change - Multi-Level Law and Policy). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1351911]
Climate change adaptation ; International waters ; Groundwater ; Aquifers ; Water law ; Legal frameworks ; International agreements ; Conventions ; UNFCCC ; Water use ; Equity ; Human rights ; International cooperation ; Ecosystems ; Food production ; Monitoring ; Information exchange
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048263)
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Most of the earth’s groundwater is in transboundary aquifers. This vital water resource will certainly be affected by climate change. This article reviews the global climate change framework to investigate how it considers water, and groundwater in particular. It then considers the international legal regime applicable to groundwater resources to explore how it deals with climate change and to what extent it is compatible with the UNFCCC framework. It concludes with identifying the limits and possibilities of the groundwater regime in addressing climate change.
7 Cullet, P.; Bhullar, L.; Koonan, S. 2017. Regulating the interactions between climate change and groundwater: lessons from India. Water International, 42(6):646-662. (Special issue: Groundwater and Climate Change - Multi-Level Law and Policy). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1351056]
Climate change ; Groundwater ; Water law ; Regulations ; Water rights ; Equity ; Water use ; Sustainability ; Water conservation ; Aquifers ; Legal frameworks ; Environmental legislation ; Environmental policies / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048291)
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Groundwater is often considered a largely local issue that is difficult to regulate. Further, groundwater regulation has often focused on use, rather than protection and conservation. There has thus been little integration of environmental concerns into groundwater regulation. Climate change calls for rethinking the regulatory framework for protecting and regulating groundwater. In India, the climate change regime has not given groundwater adequate prominence. Conversely, groundwater regulation remains largely detached from environmental challenges, including climate change. This needs to be addressed through regulation that links the two fields and is based on legal principles derived from the Constitution of India.
8 Timmerman, J.; Matthews, J.; Koeppel, S.; Valensuela, D.; Vlaanderen, N. 2017. Improving governance in transboundary cooperation in water and climate change adaptation. Water Policy, 19(6):1014-1029. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2017.156]
International waters ; International cooperation ; Water governance ; Climate change adaptation ; Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water policy ; Legal frameworks ; Corporate culture ; Economic aspects ; Financing ; Information management
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048384)
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Climate change adaptation in water management is a water governance issue. While neither climate change nor water respects national borders, adaptation in water management should be treated as a transboundary water governance issue. However, transboundary water management is, in essence, more complex than national water management because the water management regimes usually differ more between countries than within countries. This paper provides 63 lessons learned from almost a decade of cooperation on transboundary climate adaptation in water management under the UNECE Water Convention and puts these into the context of the OECD principles on water governance. It highlights that good water governance entails a variety of activities that are intertwined and cannot be considered stand-alone elements. The paper also shows that this wide variety of actions is needed to develop a climate change adaptation strategy in water management. Each of the lessons learned can be considered concrete actions connected to one or more of the OECD principles, where a range of actions may be needed to fulfil one principle. The paper concludes that developing climate change adaptation measures needs to improve in parallel the water governance system at transboundary scale.
9 Closas, Alvar; Molle, Francois. 2016. Groundwater governance in Europe. [Project report of the Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges]. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 99p. (Groundwater Governance in the Arab World - Report 3)
Groundwater management ; Water governance ; Groundwater extraction ; Regulations ; Legal frameworks ; Water law ; Water rights ; Water policy ; European Union ; Water supply ; Water pollution ; Pesticides ; Taxes ; Water user associations ; Conjunctive use ; Communities ; Collective behaviour ; Social capital ; River basins ; Aquifers ; Water authorities ; State intervention ; Political aspects ; Solar energy / Europe / Denmark / France / Spain / Copenhagen / Barcelona / La Mancha / Valencia / Beauce Aquifer / Western Mancha Aquifer / Guadiana River Basin / Llobregat Valley
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048398)
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10 Richard-Ferroudji, A.; Raghunath, T. P.; Venkatasubramanian, G. 2018. Managed aquifer recharge in India: consensual policy but controversial implementation. Water Alternatives, 11(3):749-769. (Special issue: Local- and National-level Politics of Groundwater Overexploitation).
Groundwater management ; Aquifers ; Artificial recharge ; Water demand ; Water policy ; Legal frameworks ; Government agencies ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Participation ; Development programmes ; Tanks ; Rehabilitation ; Communication ; Rural areas ; Case studies / India / Pondicherry
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048991)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol11/v11issue3/463-a11-3-16/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048991.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048991.pdf
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In the Indian water policy, Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) is considered as one of the best supply side water management options to face groundwater depletion. It is expected to optimize the resource as well as attain environmental sustainability and meet water demands and social justice. It is also expected to be implemented with a paradigmatic shift in water management. From policy to practices, at the local level, numerous recharge structures exist, are built or planned and reveal controversial implementation. With a socio-historical approach, our paper analyses the trajectory of MAR implementation in the Pondicherry Region (South India). Through interviews and observations, the trajectories of two local projects are scrutinized, The Tank Rehabilitation Programs in Pondicherry district and a recharge shaft in Kiliyanur. Stakeholders' strategies and values regarding MAR are analysed and how local appropriation leads to adaptation and diversion. Finally, there is no paradigmatic shift going with MAR implementation. Instead, MAR is shown as a consensual policy because it is a possible compromise between groundwater conservation, optimization of the resource, satisfaction of the users and social justice, but controversial positions and oppositions should be acknowledged within implementation. The paper discusses opposed conceptions of MAR: participatory vs. expert driven, demand vs. supply driven and traditional vs. modern.
11 Bouet, A.; Laborde, D. (Eds.) 2017. Agriculture, development, and the global trading system: 2000 - 2015. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 469p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896292499]
International trade ; Agricultural policies ; Development programmes ; Trade policies ; Trade agreements ; Negotiation ; Food security ; Food stocks ; Agricultural prices ; Domestic markets ; Price volatility ; Market access ; Economic impact ; Tariffs ; Subsidies ; Trade organizations ; WTO ; European Union ; Legal frameworks ; Agricultural insurance ; Crop insurance ; Cotton ; Rice ; Wheat ; Oilseeds ; Soybeans ; Imports ; Exports ; Taxes ; Food aid ; Farmers ; Models / USA / Russian Federation / Brazil / India / China / Canada / Qatar / Uruguay / Indonesia / Doha Development Agenda / Bali
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048949)
https://www.ifpri.org/cdmref/p15738coll2/id/131381/filename/131592.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048949.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048949.pdf
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This book is devoted to the complex relationship between the global trading system and food security, focusing on two important elements: the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) and how food price volatility can be managed, or not, through trade instruments. The first section of the book is based on the premise that more trade integration can fight poverty and alleviate hunger. The second section examines whether managing price volatility is doable through more or less trade integration. This section deals in particular with policy instruments available for policy makers to cope with price volatility: food stocks, crop insurance, and export restrictions. Analysis concludes that without a strong and efficient World Trade Organization (WTO) capable of conducting ambitious trade negotiations, the food security target will be much more difficult to hit.
12 Lee, E.; Jayakumar, R.; Shrestha, S.; Han, Z. 2018. Assessment of transboundary aquifer resources in Asia: status and progress towards sustainable groundwater management. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 20:103-115. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2018.01.004]
International waters ; Water resources ; Aquifers ; Sustainability ; Groundwater management ; Groundwater assessment ; River basins ; Legal frameworks ; Institutions ; International cooperation ; Socioeconomic development ; Case studies / Asia / Cambodia / Greater Mekong Subregion
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049055)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581817301684/pdfft?md5=4160abeb23650d516fa570e7ae18d8b7&pid=1-s2.0-S2214581817301684-main.pdf
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Study region: Asia.
Study focus: Internationally shared aquifers (Transboundary aquifers; TBAs) are recognised as an important water resource in Asia. Despite their importance, studies on the assessment of TBA resources have received less attention in comparison to transboundary rivers. A lack of expertise, experience, and institutional support has restricted the cooperative and sustainable management of the shared aquifer resources. This study attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of the status of transboundary groundwater resources in Asia, including the TBA inventories, socio-economic implications, and future perspectives. Specifically, the study focuses on the progress of the assessment of TBAs in Asia as a result of the Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management Initiative (ISRAM).
New hydrological insights for the region: In Asia, TBAs have played a major role in providing freshwater resources and sustaining socio-economic development. Since 2000, many regional cooperative initiatives have achieved considerable progress in developing TBA inventories of Asia, but the level of understanding of the shared aquifer systems remains limited, particularly for the developing countries. Legal and institutional frameworks for regional TBA cooperation are vital, and many countries in Asia have come to recognise the need to cooperate with their neighbours in dealing with TBA governance. Sustainable and equitable management of TBA in Asia requires an increasing effort from different sectors and countries in order to reach mutual acceptance of effective cooperation.
Study focus: Internationally shared aquifers (Transboundary aquifers; TBAs) are recognised as an important water resource in Asia. Despite their importance, studies on the assessment of TBA resources have received less attention in comparison to transboundary rivers. A lack of expertise, experience, and institutional support has restricted the cooperative and sustainable management of the shared aquifer resources. This study attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of the status of transboundary groundwater resources in Asia, including the TBA inventories, socio-economic implications, and future perspectives. Specifically, the study focuses on the progress of the assessment of TBAs in Asia as a result of the Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management Initiative (ISRAM).
New hydrological insights for the region: In Asia, TBAs have played a major role in providing freshwater resources and sustaining socio-economic development. Since 2000, many regional cooperative initiatives have achieved considerable progress in developing TBA inventories of Asia, but the level of understanding of the shared aquifer systems remains limited, particularly for the developing countries. Legal and institutional frameworks for regional TBA cooperation are vital, and many countries in Asia have come to recognise the need to cooperate with their neighbours in dealing with TBA governance. Sustainable and equitable management of TBA in Asia requires an increasing effort from different sectors and countries in order to reach mutual acceptance of effective cooperation.
13 Burchi, S. 2018. Legal frameworks for the governance of international transboundary aquifers: pre- and post-ISARM [Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management] experience. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 20:15-20. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2018.04.007]
International waters ; Aquifers ; Groundwater ; Water governance ; Legal frameworks ; International cooperation ; International agreements ; International law ; River basins ; Lakes ; Organizations / Africa / Latin America / Europe
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049073)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581817301787/pdfft?md5=4809f2a6a23de9494deaa0e5b2944504&pid=1-s2.0-S2214581817301787-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049073.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049073.pdf
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Study region: Africa, Latin America, Europe.
Study focus: Through the extensive study and mapping of the world’s aquifers that lie astride the international boundary lines of sovereign States, ISARM has awakened concerned States to the existence of aquifers stretching beyond their borders, and precipitated cooperation in generating a body of knowledge that facilitated cooperation in governance arrangements for such aquifers. In parallel, ISARM influenced the shape and direction of the United Nations “Draft articles on the law of transboundary aquifers” appended to UN Resolution 63/124 of 2008. Both stimulated cooperation among concerned States, and provided a frame of reference for the legal grounding of such cooperation in aquifer-specific agreements.
New hydrological insights: Through this synergistic paradigm, ISARM has made an impact on the shape and direction of cooperation in the Guaraní Aquifer in South America, and in the Iullemeden and Taoudeni/Tanezrouft Aquifer Systems (ITAS) in the Sahel region of Africa. It is having an influence on the shape and direction of cooperation being negotiated on the Stampriet Aquifer System in Southern Africa, and on the Ocotepeque-Citalá Aquifer in Central America. The link of ISARM to other international aquifer agreements on record is tenuous, and ISARM’s influence on their generation speculative. The visibility of ISARM has faded since 2012, however its legacy is lasting.
Study focus: Through the extensive study and mapping of the world’s aquifers that lie astride the international boundary lines of sovereign States, ISARM has awakened concerned States to the existence of aquifers stretching beyond their borders, and precipitated cooperation in generating a body of knowledge that facilitated cooperation in governance arrangements for such aquifers. In parallel, ISARM influenced the shape and direction of the United Nations “Draft articles on the law of transboundary aquifers” appended to UN Resolution 63/124 of 2008. Both stimulated cooperation among concerned States, and provided a frame of reference for the legal grounding of such cooperation in aquifer-specific agreements.
New hydrological insights: Through this synergistic paradigm, ISARM has made an impact on the shape and direction of cooperation in the Guaraní Aquifer in South America, and in the Iullemeden and Taoudeni/Tanezrouft Aquifer Systems (ITAS) in the Sahel region of Africa. It is having an influence on the shape and direction of cooperation being negotiated on the Stampriet Aquifer System in Southern Africa, and on the Ocotepeque-Citalá Aquifer in Central America. The link of ISARM to other international aquifer agreements on record is tenuous, and ISARM’s influence on their generation speculative. The visibility of ISARM has faded since 2012, however its legacy is lasting.
14 Gany, A. H. A.; Sharma, P.; Singh, S. 2019. Global review of institutional reforms in the irrigation sector for sustainable agricultural water management, including water users’ associations. Irrigation and Drainage, 68(1):84-97. (Special issue: Special Issue with Selected Papers of the 23rd ICID Congress, Mexico City). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2305]
Irrigation management ; Institutional reform ; Sustainable agriculture ; Water management ; Participatory management ; Water user associations ; Public-private cooperation ; State intervention ; Legal frameworks ; Irrigation systems ; Privatization ; Farmers attitudes
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049172)
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This paper reviews institutional reforms in the irrigation sector for sustainable agricultural water management (AWM) undertaken in 14 countries and regions, including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, South Korea, Sudan, Chinese Taipei, Turkey and Ukraine. These regions represent a vast diversity of geography, climate, governance, socioeconomic conditions and level of development. In those countries with smaller land areas and high-technology manufacturing, such as Japan and Korea, agriculture is now being viewed as technology-driven food factories of the future. Meanwhile, for countries with a significant base population and increasing growth rates, such as China, India and Indonesia, agriculture seems to dominate the development debate. The comparative evaluation analyses the issues regarding institutional and organizational reforms focusing on the legal and organizational framework structure including water users’ associations (WUAs) for water supply services, participatory irrigation management (PIM) and management transfer, and public–private partnership (PPP) towards sustainable irrigation and drainage (I&D) and agricultural water management (AWM). Despite the diverse geography and institutional frameworks, food security remains a major concern in all the countries and regions reviewed in this paper. The formation and functioning of WUAs, ageing I&D infrastructure and its operation and management (O&M) appear to be the major institutional and PPP challenges for sustainable AWM in the immediate future.
15 Matchaya, Greenwell; Nhamo, Luxon; Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso; Nhemachena, Charles. 2019. An overview of water markets in southern Africa: an option for water management in times of scarcity. Water, 11(5):1-16. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11051006]
Water market ; Water management ; Water scarcity ; Climate change adaptation ; Drought ; Arid climate ; Rain ; Resilience ; Water resources ; International waters ; Water transfer ; Joint ventures ; Water rights ; Water security ; Water distribution ; River basins ; Legal frameworks ; Risks / Southern Africa / SADC countries
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049189)
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Southern Africa faces acute water scarcity challenges due to drought recurrence, degradation of surface water resources, and the increasing demand of water from agriculture, which has to meet the growing food demands of an increasing population. These stressors require innovative solutions that ensure the sustainability of water resources, without which the consequences could be dire for a region exposed to a host of vulnerabilities, including climate change. This review outlines the role of water markets in water management in times of water scarcity, highlighting the drivers of water markets in southern Africa, such as water scarcity, transboundary nature of water resources, and their uneven distribution. The review further discusses the role of water markets in climate change adaptation. Related institutional and legal frameworks as well as water allocation mechanisms are explored, aiming at improving water markets governance. The impact of adaptation to new water regimes in the face of scarcity are assessed by considering characteristics of current markets as related to future opportunities. In a diverse region such as southern Africa with unevenly distributed water resources, advancing the concept of water markets could play an important role in mitigating water scarcity challenges and promoting regional integration through coordinated transboundary water transfers. The emergence of water markets in the region is influenced by the continued depletion of water resources, which is resulting in the adoption of innovative water marketing strategies, such as inter-farm sharing or farm joint venture systems and inter-basin and intra-basin water transfers. As the concept is new in the region, it still has challenges that include general market inefficiencies, high transaction costs, market information asymmetries, imperfect competition, and weak or absent robust institutional frameworks that can facilitate market development.
16 de Silva, Sanjiv; Schmitter, Petra; Thiha, Nyan; Suhardiman, Diana. 2019. A handbook for establishing water user associations in pump-based irrigation schemes in Myanmar. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 71p. (Also in Burmese) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2019.213]
Water user associations ; Irrigation schemes ; Pumps ; Handbooks ; Guidelines ; Models ; Participatory management ; Irrigation management ; Farmer participation ; Gender ; Farmers organizations ; Water allocation ; Equity ; Organizational development ; Strategies ; Governing bodies ; Human resources ; Multi-stakeholder processes ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Government agencies ; Development policies ; Irrigation programs ; Infrastructure ; Costs ; Legal frameworks ; Regulations ; Awareness raising ; Empowerment ; Capacity building ; Training ; Villages ; Living standards ; Socioeconomic environment ; Conflicts / Myanmar / Pyawt Ywar Pump Irrigation Project
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049296)
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17 Suhardiman, Diana; Bright, J.; Palmano, C. 2021. The politics of legal pluralism in the shaping of spatial power in Myanmar’s land governance. Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(2):411-435. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2019.1656200]
Land governance ; Legal pluralism ; Political power ; Land use ; Land rights ; Land policies ; Central government ; Political institutions ; Legal frameworks ; Farmers ; Land tenure ; Customary tenure ; Land titling ; Strategies ; Villages ; Local communities ; Case studies / Myanmar / Karen State / Mukaplow / Maepoe Noh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049411)
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Following the National League for Democracy’s landslide victory in the 2015 national election, Myanmar embarked on a series of legal and political transitions. This paper highlights parallel processes alongside such transitions. Linking land governance with the ongoing peace processes, and taking Karen state as a case study, it brings to light how both processes are in fact closely interlinked. Building on legal pluralism research, we argue that in the context of ethnic states, farmers’ strategies to strengthen their land rights resemble the very notion of state transformation.
18 Young, W. J.; Anwar, Arif; Bhatti, Tousif; Borgomeo, Edoardo; Davies, S.; Garthwaite, W. R. III; Gilmont, M.; Leb, C.; Lytton, L.; Makin, Ian; Saeed, B. 2019. Pakistan: getting more from water. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 191p. (Water Security Diagnostics)
Water security ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water governance ; Water policy ; Groundwater management ; Agricultural water use ; Water productivity ; Water availability ; Water allocation ; Water balance ; Water demand ; Water quality ; Water extraction ; Institutional reform ; Irrigation systems ; Irrigated sites ; Irrigated farming ; Water supply ; Hydropower ; Energy ; Nexus ; Environmental sustainability ; Legal frameworks ; Law reform ; Infrastructure ; Investment ; Economic aspects ; Financing ; Income ; Sanitation ; Climate change ; Flood control ; Risk reduction ; Planning ; Rivers ; Reservoirs ; Dams ; Sediment ; Political aspects ; Monitoring ; Models / Pakistan / Indus Basin / Punjab / Sindh / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa / Balochistan / Karachi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049423)
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/251191548275645649/pdf/133964-WP-PUBLIC-ADD-SERIES-22-1-2019-18-56-25-W.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049423.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049423.pdf
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This report builds on prior work to provide a new, comprehensive, and balanced view of water security in Pakistan, stressing the importance of the diverse social, environmental, and economic outcomes from water. The report highlights the complex water issues that Pakistan must tackle to improve water security and sheds new light on conventional assumptions around water. It seeks to elevate water security as an issue critical for national development. The report assesses current water security and identifies important water-related challenges that may hinder progress in economic and human development. It identifies unmitigated water-related risks, as well as opportunities where water can contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction. The report analyzes how the performance and architecture of the water sector are related to broader economic, social, and environmental outcomes. It models alternative economic trajectories to identify where intervention can lead to a more water-secure future. A consideration of water sector architecture and performance and how these determine outcome leads to recommendations for improving aspects of sector performance and adjusting sector architecture for better outcomes. The sector performance analysis considers (a) management of the water resource, (b) delivery of water services, and (c) mitigation of water-related risks. The description of sector architecture considers water governance, infrastructure, and financing.
19 Anarbekov, Oyture; Gaypnazarov, Norboy; Akramov, Isomiddin; Gafurov, Zafar; Djumaboev, Kakhramon; Solieva, Umida; Khodjaev, Shovkat; Yuldashev, Tulkin; Akramov, Bekzod; Murzaeva, Makhliyo. 2019. Assessment of the current situation of the Aksu River Basin in Kashkadarya Region: analytical report. In Russian. Project report prepared under the European Union Programme on Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Rural Areas in Uzbekistan. Component 1: National policy framework for water governance and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Tashkent, Uzbekistan: European Union; Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. 58p. (Also in English/Uzbek)
River basin development ; Water resources ; Water management ; Integrated management ; Sustainability ; Legal frameworks ; Water governance ; Development policies ; Planning ; Groundwater ; Drinking water ; Water supply ; Water use ; Water quality ; Rural areas ; Socioeconomic environment ; Stakeholders ; Strategies ; Agricultural development ; Irrigation systems ; Natural disasters ; Risk analysis ; Land resources ; Ecosystems ; Biodiversity / Uzbekistan / Kashkadarya / Aksu River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049426)
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20 Anarbekov, Oyture; Gaypnazarov, Norboy; Akramov, Isomiddin; Gafurov, Zafar; Djumaboev, Kakhramon; Solieva, Umida; Khodjaev, Shovkat; Yuldashev, Tulkin; Akramov, Bekzod; Murzaeva, Makhliyo. 2018. Assessment of the current situation of the Aksu River Basin in Kashkadarya Region: analytical report. [Project report prepared under the European Union Programme on Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Rural Areas in Uzbekistan. Component 1: National policy framework for water governance and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)]. In Uzbek. Tashkent, Uzbekistan: European Union; Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. 58p. (Also in English/Russian)
River basin development ; Water resources ; Water management ; Integrated management ; Sustainability ; Legal frameworks ; Water governance ; Development policies ; Planning ; Groundwater ; Drinking water ; Water supply ; Water use ; Water quality ; Rural areas ; Socioeconomic environment ; Stakeholders ; Strategies ; Agricultural development ; Irrigation systems ; Natural disasters ; Risk analysis ; Land resources ; Ecosystems ; Biodiversity / Uzbekistan / Kashkadarya / Aksu River Basin
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