Managing Salinization: Institutional Analysis of Public Irrigation Systems

Author:   W. Scheumann ,  A. Weissbach ,  H. Boeddicker
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Edition:   illustrated edition
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9783540633280


Pages:   290
Publication Date:   October 1997
Format:   Hardback
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Salinization of soils is a major threat to irrigated agriculture and counteracts the targets of costly public infrastructure investments. In this study, salinization is regarded as the outcome of an institutional arrangement which impedes the effective implementation of well-known and well-established control measures be they technical, managerial or economic. In public irrigation systems neither the management units nor the farmers are offered any incentives towards the control of high groundwater levels and salinization if the management units are embedded in a highly centralized non-market institutional setting. The author answers the question under which conditions management units and irrigators are active in halting and reversing the process of salinization.

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Author:   W. Scheumann ,  A. Weissbach ,  H. Boeddicker
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   illustrated edition
ISBN:  

9783540633280


ISBN 10:   3540633286
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   October 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Theories on the Provision and Supply of Goods and Services Through Political and Bureaucratic Systems * Empirical Research on Large-Scale Public and on Small-Scale Farmer-Owned and Managed Irrigation * Effects of High Groundwater Levels, Waterlogging and Salinity on Farm Economy * Coordination and Cooperation in Multi-organizational Arrangements; Conditions for Changing Institutional Arrangements, and for Successful User Group Participation.

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