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Asian irrigation in transition: responding to challenges/ edited by Ganesh P. Shivakoti

Contributor(s): Shivakoti, Ganesh P., edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: SAGE, 2005Description: 528 pISBN: 9780761933502Subject(s): Water-supply, Agricultural--Management | Irrigation | Irrigation--ManagementOnline resources: Click here to access online

Contents:

List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1: Asian Irrigation Problems and Prospects -- Ganesh P. Shivakoti, Wai-Fung Lam and Ujjwal Pradhan -- Theme I: General Perspectives on Transition -- 2: Perspectives on Asian Irrigation -- Randolph Barker and Franȯis Molle -- 3: Social Capital and Irrigation Management: Bringing Rigor and -- Evidence to the Relationship -- Norman T. Uphoff -- 4: Institutions Against Change -- Nirmal Sengupta -- Theme II: Response to Competition for Resources -- 5: Groundwater Markets and Irrigation Potential in South Asia: A Micro Study from Nepal -- Humnath Bhandari and Ganesh P. Shivakoti -- 6: Emerging Water Crisis and Political Economy of Irrigation Reforms in India -- Vishwa Ballabh -- 7: Recognizing Multiple Water Uses in Intersectoral Water Transfers -- Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Rajendra Pradhan -- 8: The Closure of the Chao Phraya River Basin in Thailand: Its Causes, Consequences, and Policy Implications -- Franȯis Molle -- 9: The Emergence of Polycentric Water Governance in Northern Thailand Uraivan Tan-Kim-Yong, Pakping Chalad Bruns and Bryan Randolph Bruns -- Theme III: Institutional Reforms and New Partnership -- 10: Asian Irrigation in Transition: Service Orientation, Institutional -- Aspects and Design, Operation, Infrastructure Issues -- Thierry Facon -- 11: Participatory Approaches to Irrigation Development and Management in the Philippines: The Next Generation -- Luis P. Eleazar, Jose A. Galvez, Verda Imperial Saw, Roger C. Lazaro and Alfred Waldstein -- 12: Leadership and Turnover: The Contradictions of Irrigation Management Reform in the People's Republic of China -- Peter P. Mollinga, Gao Hong and Anjali M. Bhatia -- 13: Reforming Taiwan's Irrigation Associations: Getting the Nesting of Institutions Right -- Wai-Fung Lam -- 14: People's Participation in Irrigation Management in Thailand -- Tassanee Ouvichit -- 15: Coalition-Building for Participatory Irrigation Management under Changing Water Resource Trends: Reflections on Reforms in Andhra Pradesh, India -- M.V.K. Sivamohan and Christopher A. Scott -- 16: Irrigation Sector Reform in Asia: From 'Participation with Patronage' -- to 'Empowerment with Accountability' -- Douglas L. Vermillion -- Theme IV: Markets and Economic Productivity of Irrigated Agriculture -- 17: Making Irrigation Management Pro-Poor: Indications of Potentials from China and Vietnam -- Eric Biltonen, Doan Doan Tuan and Jinxia Wang -- 18: Moving Beyond Water Provision: Strategic Issues Related to Transition of Irrigation Management in Indonesia -- Helmi -- 19: Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems in Asia: Subsistence Agriculture in Transition -- Robert Yoder and Prachanda Pradhan -- Theme V: Synthesis and Strategic Responses -- 20: The Future of Irrigated Agriculture in Asia: What the Twenty-First Century will Require of Policies, Institutions, and Governance -- Douglas L. Vermillion, Elinor Ostrom and Robert Yoder -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

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List of Illustrations --
List of Tables --
Foreword --
Preface --
1: Asian Irrigation Problems and Prospects --
Ganesh P. Shivakoti, Wai-Fung Lam and Ujjwal Pradhan --
Theme I: General Perspectives on Transition --
2: Perspectives on Asian Irrigation --
Randolph Barker and Franȯis Molle --
3: Social Capital and Irrigation Management: Bringing Rigor and --
Evidence to the Relationship --
Norman T. Uphoff --
4: Institutions Against Change --
Nirmal Sengupta --
Theme II: Response to Competition for Resources --
5: Groundwater Markets and Irrigation Potential in South Asia: A Micro Study from Nepal --
Humnath Bhandari and Ganesh P. Shivakoti --
6: Emerging Water Crisis and Political Economy of Irrigation Reforms in India --
Vishwa Ballabh --
7: Recognizing Multiple Water Uses in Intersectoral Water Transfers --
Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Rajendra Pradhan --
8: The Closure of the Chao Phraya River Basin in Thailand: Its Causes, Consequences, and Policy Implications --
Franȯis Molle --
9: The Emergence of Polycentric Water Governance in Northern Thailand Uraivan Tan-Kim-Yong, Pakping Chalad Bruns and Bryan Randolph Bruns --
Theme III: Institutional Reforms and New Partnership --
10: Asian Irrigation in Transition: Service Orientation, Institutional --
Aspects and Design, Operation, Infrastructure Issues --
Thierry Facon --
11: Participatory Approaches to Irrigation Development and Management in the Philippines: The Next Generation --
Luis P. Eleazar, Jose A. Galvez, Verda Imperial Saw, Roger C. Lazaro and Alfred Waldstein --
12: Leadership and Turnover: The Contradictions of Irrigation Management Reform in the People's Republic of China --
Peter P. Mollinga, Gao Hong and Anjali M. Bhatia --
13: Reforming Taiwan's Irrigation Associations: Getting the Nesting of Institutions Right --
Wai-Fung Lam --
14: People's Participation in Irrigation Management in Thailand --
Tassanee Ouvichit --
15: Coalition-Building for Participatory Irrigation Management under Changing Water Resource Trends: Reflections on Reforms in Andhra Pradesh, India --
M.V.K. Sivamohan and Christopher A. Scott --
16: Irrigation Sector Reform in Asia: From 'Participation with Patronage' --
to 'Empowerment with Accountability' --
Douglas L. Vermillion --
Theme IV: Markets and Economic Productivity of Irrigated Agriculture --
17: Making Irrigation Management Pro-Poor: Indications of Potentials from China and Vietnam --
Eric Biltonen, Doan Doan Tuan and Jinxia Wang --
18: Moving Beyond Water Provision: Strategic Issues Related to Transition of Irrigation Management in Indonesia --
Helmi --
19: Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems in Asia: Subsistence Agriculture in Transition --
Robert Yoder and Prachanda Pradhan --
Theme V: Synthesis and Strategic Responses --
20: The Future of Irrigated Agriculture in Asia: What the Twenty-First Century will Require of Policies, Institutions, and Governance --
Douglas L. Vermillion, Elinor Ostrom and Robert Yoder --
About the Editors and Contributors --
Index.

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