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1 Reason, P.; Bradbury, H. (Eds.) 2001. Handbook of action research: participative inquiry and practice. London, UK: SAGE Publications. 468p.
Research methods ; Participatory approaches ; Group approaches ; Social change ; Gender ; Women in development ; Public participation ; Cooperation ; Social institutions ; Interorganizational relationships ; Enterprises ; Educational institutions ; Universities ; Linguistics ; Information technology ; Scientists ; Undergraduates ; Social workers ; Communities ; Indigenous knowledge ; Natural resources management ; Sustainable development ; Research projects ; Experimental design ; Clinical investigations ; Arts ; Photography ; Cultural factors ; Case studies / USA / Africa / Guatemala / Tanzania
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 300.72 G000 REA Record No: H047660)
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2 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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3 Molden, O.; Griffin, N.; Meehan, K. 2016. The cultural dimensions of household water security: the case of Kathmandu’s stone spout systems. Water International, 41(7):982-997. (Special issue: Putting Practice into Policy). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1251677]
Water security ; Household consumption ; Domestic water ; Water supply ; Water use ; Water distribution systems ; Traditional technology ; Ancestral technology ; Cultural factors ; Water governance ; Political aspects ; Legislation ; State intervention ; Urban development ; Social institutions ; Communities / Nepal / Kathmandu / Lalitpur
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047871)
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This article contributes knowledge to the under-studied cultural aspects of household water security through the case of Kathmandu’s ancient stone waterspouts. It asks why and how ‘traditional’ water supply systems persist as a form of water provision, and examines governance arrangements that pose challenges to these systems. It demonstrates that spout systems are critical sources of secure water supply, particularly for underserved populations. Also, the religious, cultural and social significance of spouts enables community autonomy and facilitates their persistence. However, conflicts between cultural heritage and drinking water law and policy undermine spout revitalization efforts and the entire system’s integrity.
4 Joshi, J.; Ali, M.; Berrens, R. P. 2017. Valuing farm access to irrigation in Nepal: a hedonic pricing model. Agricultural Water Management, 181:35-46. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2016.11.020]
Irrigation water ; Irrigation systems ; Communal irrigation systems ; Economic value ; Market prices ; Econometric models ; Valuation ; Farmland ; Canals ; Rural communities ; Social institutions ; Governance ; Households ; Income ; Farmers ; Forestry ; Mountains / Nepal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047994)
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The objective of this research is to quantify the economic value of access to irrigation for agricultural lands in rural Nepal, while controlling for the effects of social institutions that can either enhance or detract from agricultural production and land values. The analysis employs the hedonic pricing method (HPM) and uses self-assessed land value data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey, 2011. For the econometric modeling, a Box-Cox transformation supports the selection of the double log HPM model. Results show that the value of land with access to irrigation water is approximately 46 percent higher than the value of non-irrigated lands with a marginal implicit price of approximately NRs. 150,840 in 2011, (representing about seven times the median rural annual per capita income). Results also show the importance of built irrigation infrastructure, such as canals and tube wells, as well as access to multiple sources of irrigation water. We find that land-owner membership in community-managed irrigation systems and forestry user groups has positive impacts on land values. In consideration of extensive 2015 earthquake damages across large areas of Nepal, the findings support the critical importance of repairing irrigation access, especially to built irrigation infrastructures, and supporting community-managed irrigation and forestry user groups, which often lack the initial capital to initiate projects, for restoring rural well-being.
5 Smith, M.; Cross, K.; Paden, M.; Laban, P. (Eds.) 2016. Spring: managing groundwater sustainably. Gland, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). 132p.
Groundwater management ; Water use ; Water pollution ; Water governance ; Water policy ; Water law ; Water resources ; Water institutions ; Water table ; Sustainable development ; Economic aspects ; Incentives ; Socioeconomic environment ; Microeconomics ; Macroeconomics ; Social institutions ; Stakeholders ; Aquifers ; Biodiversity
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 553.79 G000 SMI Record No: H049069)
https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/2016-039.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049069.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049069.pdf
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6 Clay, N.; King, B. 2019. Smallholders’ uneven capacities to adapt to climate change amid Africa’s ‘green revolution’: case study of Rwanda’s crop intensification program. World Development, 116:1-14. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.11.022]
Climate change adaptation ; Smallholders ; Crop production ; Intensification ; Development programmes ; Green revolution ; Commercial farming ; Risk management ; Social institutions ; Households ; Socioeconomic environment ; Living standards ; Case studies / Africa South of Sahara / Rwanda / Kibirizi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049168)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X18304285/pdfft?md5=b354ebad664691ed78ecf208431f2d6a&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X18304285-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049168.pdf
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Development programs and policies can influence smallholder producers’ abilities to adapt to climate change. However, gaps remain in understanding how households’ adaptive capacities can become uneven. This paper investigates how development transitions—such as the recent adoption of ‘green revolution’ agricultural policies throughout sub-Saharan Africa—intersect with cross-scale social-environmental processes to unevenly shape smallholders’ adaptive capacities and adaptation pathways. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative material from a multi-season study in Rwanda, we investigate smallholder adaptation processes amid a suite of rural development interventions. Our study finds that adaptive capacities arise differentially across livelihood groups in the context of evolving environmental, social, and political economic processes. We show how social institutions play key roles in shaping differential adaptation pathways by enabling and/or constraining opportunities for smallholders to adapt livelihood and land use strategies. Specifically, Rwanda’s Crop Intensification Program enables some wealthier households to adapt livelihoods by generating income through commercial agriculture. At the same time, deactivation of local risk management institutions has diminished climate risk management options for most households. To build and employ alternate livelihood practices such as commercial agriculture and planting woodlots for charcoal production, smallholders must negotiate new institutions, a prerequisite for which is access to capitals (land, labor, and nonfarm income). Those without entitlements to these are pulled deeper into poverty with each successive climatic shock. This illustrates that adaptive capacity is not a static, quantifiable entity that exists in households. We argue that reconceptualizing adaptive capacity as a dynamic, social-environmental process that emerges in places can help clarify complex linkages among development policies, livelihoods, and adaptation pathways. To ensure more equitable and climate-resilient agricultural development, we stress the need to reformulate policies with careful attention to how power structures and entrenched social inequalities can lead to smallholders’ uneven capacities to adapt to climate change.
7 Asprilla-Echeverria, J. 2021. The social drivers of cooperation in groundwater management and implications for sustainability. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 15:100668. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2021.100668]
Groundwater management ; Cooperation ; Sustainability ; Social institutions ; Aquifers ; Groundwater extraction ; Resource depletion ; Water conservation ; Water scarcity ; Water users ; Natural resources ; Climate variability ; Climate change ; Infrastructure ; Wells ; Pumping ; Agreements ; Decision making ; Property rights
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050750)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352801X21001259/pdfft?md5=e1c69d55324d01b9679eb5d3cd8822e5&pid=1-s2.0-S2352801X21001259-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050750.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050750.pdf
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The present article develops a methodical literature review on the social and behavioral dimensions in common-pool resources (CPR) cooperation, especially in groundwater management. It is built upon the revision of ninety-five articles published in peer-reviewed journals related to water, collective goods, common-pool resources, and natural resources economics. The time span covers the published books and articles from 1964 until 2018 and makes special reference to Hume (1898) explanations on how complicated the maintenance of resources used in common is. If sustainability in CPR management programs is pursued, drivers for cooperation should be understood to make it manageable and operationalizable. Suggestions are made in terms of the classification of the drivers for cooperation, namely instruments, conditions, components/strategies, and assumptions. Apart from presenting the literature reviewed, the implications for CPR sustainability are discussed. Aquifers present different hydrogeological characteristics, subject to complex social extraction decisions and physical changing circumstances such as climate change and climate variability. Groundwater conservation and experimental settings should not only reflect the complex physical interrelated elements, but the complex social institutions and rules governing the extraction patterns.
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