Reforming Institutions in Water Resource Management

Policy and Performance for Sustainable Development
Herausgeber: Crase, Lin; Gandhi, Vasant P

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9781844077557
• ISBN-10: 1844077551
• Artikelnr.: 26855706

Autorenporträt

Lin Crase is Executive Director of the Albury-Wodonga Campus at La Trobe University, and has published widely on water policy. Vasant Gandhi is Professor at the Centre for Management in Agriculture at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and has published extensively on policies and institutions for food and agriculture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Effectiveness of Water Institutions.
2. Laws, Customs and Rules: Identifying the Characteristics of Successful
Water Institutions.
3. Dynamic Community Preferences: Lessons for Institutional Design and
Measuring Transaction and Transformation Costs.
4. Institutional Constraints and Organisational Dynamics: The Case of Water
Trade between the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales.
5. Institutions for Water Management in Developing Countries: Their Role,
Nature and Analysis.
6. Water Institutions in India: An Institutional Design Perspective.
7. Legal Dimensions of Water Resource Management in India: A Review of
Legal Instruments Controlling Extractions to Sustainable Limits.
8. Water Resource Development and Institutions in India: Overview and
Profile.
9. Water Institutions in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and
Maharashtra in India: An Empirical Study.
10. Surface Water Institutions in India: An Empirical Study.
11. Ground Water Institutions in India: An Empirical Study.
12. Rain Water Harvesting Institutions in India: An Empirical Study.
13. Rights Devolution Under Irrigation Management Transfer in Developing
Asia: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Results.
14. The Role of Information and Decision Making Capacity in a Hierarchal
Process.
15. Water Institutions and their Relationship to Poverty Alleviation.
16. Institutions and Irrigation in India - Concluding Lessons and the Way
Forward.
Index