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Title Institutional aspects of water management : evaluating the experience / Gamini Hearth, editor.

Publication Info. New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2012]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome.
Description text file
Series Water Resource Planning, Development and Management
Water resource planning, development and management series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTSOF WATER MANAGEMENTEVALUATING THE EXPERIENCE; WATER RESOURCE PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF WATER MANAGEMENT EVALUATING THE EXPERIENCE; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN WATERRESOURCES MANAGEMENT; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; WATER USE PROBLEMS AND DEGRADATIONOF NATURAL RESOURCES; WATER, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND INSTITUTIONS; THE NEED FOR INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; ROLE OF STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION IN INSTITUTIONS DESIGN; THEORETICAL FEATURES OF INSTITUTIONS.
PURPOSE OF BOOKREFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. POLICIES, INSTITUTIONSAND GOVERNANCE CHALLENGESOF IRRIGATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY1; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS IN THE IRRIGATION SECTOR; POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IRRIGATION GOVERNANCE; The Politics of Water Resources Policy; The Political Economy of Water Pricing Reform; Markets and Water Management; SOME INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES; Dynamics Study with Cross-Sectional Data; Integration of Hydrological Boundary with Political Boundary; Analyzing Effect of Intervention Overtime; Political Economy Approach.
Livelihood Asset Pentagon: Analytical Framework for IrrigationSystem Performance AssessmentProperty Rights, Water Rights and Legal Pluralism; GOVERNANCE CHANGE AND COPING MECHANISMS:LOCAL MULTIFUNCTIONAL COOPERATIVES; Farmers-to-Farmer Training Approach; O and M Mechanisms: Changed Participation, TargetedCredit, and Benefit Sharing; Crops/Drops of Water -- Agricultural Research and Irrigation; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. PRIVATIZATION REVISITED: LESSONS LEARNEDFROM PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATIONIN WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATIONIN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION.
MARKET AND MARKET FAILURES:THE ROLE OF PUBLIC SECTORMarket Failures; Non-Market Failures; WATER: AN EXTRAORDINARY GOOD; PUBLIC SECTOR PROVISION OF WSS; Non-Market Failures in WSS; Norms of Successes in Public Water Supply; Lessons Learned: Public Water Utilities; Private Sector Participation in Water Supply and Sanitation; Mobilization of Private Capital; Inadequate Competition; Unclear Productive Efficiency; Pricing Issues; Low Coverage; Norms for Successful PSPs in Developing Countries; Supply Side Conditions; Policy And Institutional Environment; Innovative Measures to Create Competition.
Effective Regulatory Mechanism and Contract EnforcementDemand-Side Measures; Lessons Learned: Private Sector Participation; Putting Lessons to Practice; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. DIMENSIONS OF TRANSACTIONS COSTS:A REVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCETO WATER TRADING; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; CONCEPTUAL EVOLUTION OF TRANSACTIONS COSTS:A REVIEW; Transaction costs defined; MEASUREMENT OF TRANSACTION COSTS; TRANSACTIONS COST IN WATER TRADE; Magnitude of Transaction Costs in Tradable Water; TRADABLE WATER RIGHTS:PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; Why Tradable Water Rights?
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Language English.
Subject Water resources development -- Government policy.
Water resources development -- Government policy.
Water-supply -- Management -- Government policy.
Water-supply -- Management.
Government policy.
Water quality management -- Government policy.
Water quality management -- Government policy.
Water quality management.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hearth, Gamini, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Institutional aspects of water management New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2012] 9781614703952 (hardcover) (DLC) 2011028033
ISBN 9781621001065 (ebook)
1621001067
9781614703952 (hardcover)
1614703957
9781614703952