scholarly journals Influence of Land and Water Rights on Land Degradation in Central Asia

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1242
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Strikeleva ◽  
Iskandar Abdullaev ◽  
Tais Reznikova
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Production Functions ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Land And Water Rights ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Institutional Aspects ◽  
Technological Challenge

Land degradation is a key issue for Central Asia as an agrarian region. Land degradation in Central Asia is usually seen as a technological challenge and corresponding solutions are associated with the improvement of land-use technology. However, the reality is more complicated and multi-faceted. Institutional aspects of land degradation in the region are more prominent and yet unnoticed. De-linked water and land rights, increased land production functions, water infrastructure degradation, a lack of water-use monitoring, and a lack of knowledge among water users constitute the major institutional aspects of land degradation in Central Asia. This paper looks at the linkages between water and land rights and the main aspects of land degradation. The research was built on a literature review, including internationally funded project reports and in-house investigations.

Exploring ethno-racial policy for the Garinagu in Central America: making the case for Black Indigeneity

2020 ◽  
pp. 117718012097900
Author(s):  
Sheryl Felecia Means
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Central American ◽  
Language Attrition ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
Collective Rights ◽  
Land And Water Rights ◽  
Racial Policy

Across the Central American region, several groups received political autonomy by the end of the 20th century. By granting autonomy to these groups, countries like Nicaragua acknowledged certain populations as members of distinct ethnic groups. This was not the case for every country or group in the region, and the lack of effective ethno-racial policy-making considerations across Central America has led to language attrition, loss of land and water rights, and commodification of historic communities. This article focuses on Honduras and Belize as unique sites of ethno-racial and socio-cultural policy making, group identity making and unmaking, and group rights for the Garinagu. Specifically, this work forwards a re-examination of national ethno-racial policy and a critical assessment of political models based on ethno-cultural collective rights intended to combat racial discrimination.

scholarly journals Experience in Improvement of the Water Sector Institutional Structures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Water Legislation

Experience of the Central Asia countries in the sphere of reorming of institutional structures responsible for water resources management has been investigated. The outcomes of the works aimed at studying of the results of the integrated management principles application in order to improve structures and methods of water resources management are presented. These outputs enable to reveal special features of the approaches to the management problems solution in the conditions of available water resources abundance and lack in countries with different economic and natural/climatic conditions. The experience was summed up and the typical trends in the water sector management improvement accumulated in the Central Asia countries, as well as the date from other countries with the similar problems including NICs with centralized administrative systems, regions with the many-century traditions of irrigation farming, as well as the countries of transitional economy were revealed. Studying of many countries’ experience concerning adiption of the water resources integrated management allows us to state that there is no sungle ideal or universal model of transition from spatial/territorial management to basin management, no model which can be applied to any country. Analysis of the water resources management systems and institutions enables to formulate the main conditions for effective application of water resources integrated management principles. The paper notes that in spite of substantial progess in water resources management attained in the Central Asia countries many problems including practical application of water legislation, taking into account interest of all sectors of national economy, better coordination between ministeries and agencies involved in water resources management, participation of all stakeholders in taking decisions concerning water supply projects, distribution of juridical and financial obligations between water users and government, and insufficient coordination and agreement in actions at international, national andregional levels stay unsolved.

Securing Rural Women’s Land and Water Rights:

Water is Life ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 384-419
Author(s):  
Anne Hellum ◽  
Bill Derman ◽  
Lindiwe Mangwanya ◽  
Elizabeth Rutsate
Keyword(s):  
Water Rights ◽  
Land And Water Rights

Adapting to water scarcity: constraints and opportunities for improving irrigation management in Khorezm, Uzbekistan

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Tischbein ◽  
A. M. Manschadi ◽  
C. Conrad ◽  
A.-K. Hornidge ◽  
A. Bhaduri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Economic Incentive ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Flexible Modeling ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Sustainable Resource Use ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Like many irrigation schemes in Central Asia, the one in Khorezm faces a two-fold challenge: on the one side, the severe problems inherited from the past need to be remedied and on the other side, the rising supply–demand gap driven by sharpening competition for water and climate change must be dealt with. Located in the lower part of the Amu Darya basin, Khorezm irrigation and drainage scheme is particularly vulnerable to supply–demand gaps. Promising solutions towards adaptation comprise modified strategies of land and water use towards higher efficiency and flexibility in combination with measures to lessen the constraints of the system itself, which was initially designed for the management of a few, large and uniform production units and not for many diverse and small units. Solutions consist of flexible, modeling-based approaches, re-arranging institutional settings and establishing economic incentive systems. Flexible modeling allows an integrated use of surface and groundwater resources avoiding or minimizing the impact of water stress on yield. Institutional settings strengthen the position of water users via improved participation and transparency of processes in Water Consumers Associations (WCAs). Economic measures support sustainable resource use strategies and improve the functioning of WCAs. The findings could be extrapolated to other regions of Central Asia with similar conditions and challenges.

New Water Agents and Actors in Civil Society

2018 ◽  
pp. 124-142
Author(s):  
Eric P. Perramond
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Citizen Groups ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Water Issues

New citizen groups, agents, and nonprofits rose to prominence in the late twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries because of water adjudication suits and because the long delays in adjudicating water rights across the state’s basins. These new water nonprofits have helped consolidate and organize a new level of understanding among some of the water sovereigns. New user groups themselves have often imposed new organizational and administrative demands on local water users. Notably, women became more active in water issues across all scales. Ironically, the adversarial and seemingly infinite process of adjudication created new forums for water users to voice their concerns even if they remain advisory in nature.

Abeyta

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Eric P. Perramond
Keyword(s):  
Water Rights ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
Groundwater Pumping ◽  
Indian Water ◽  
Water Users ◽  
The City ◽  
Water Uses ◽  
Court Process ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Taos Pueblo

The Taos Valley (Abeyta) adjudication case illustrates how settlement outside the formal court process led to a more amenable resolution of difficult and adversarial litigation. The Taos adjudication was sparked by a dam that was never built, but the case continued on to sort out water uses in the valley. Taos Pueblo, at the headwaters of most of the major streams in the area, was well placed to negotiate their Indian water rights. Over time, the regional acequias, the Pueblo, the city of Taos, and other interested water users created a tailored water agreement, now in settlement, that was more in line with historical understanding and practices. Concerns remain over groundwater pumping, shortages, and excluded parties.

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