Laws, Customs and Rules: Identifying the Characteristics of Successful Water Institutions

2009 ◽  
pp. 36-60
Keyword(s):  
Water Institutions

scholarly journals A macrohistorical geography of rural drinking water institutions in India

Water History ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Wescoat ◽  
Rahul Bramhankar ◽  
J. V. R. Murty ◽  
Ranu Singh ◽  
Piyush Verma
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Institutions

Humankind and Water

2019 ◽  
pp. 36-64
Author(s):  
Edward B. Barbier
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Water Institutions ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines how humankind's complex relationship with water evolved historically to create today's water paradox. There is a significant difference between how water is managed and used for economic development today compared to past eras. Starting with the Agricultural Transition around 10,000 years ago, economic development was spurred by harnessing more water resources. Rather than threatening sustainable development, exploiting and controlling water resources was the key to building successful and long-lasting economies. Although the relationship between exploiting water resources and economic development has changed, many of the water institutions and innovations have not. Water may appear to be cheap, but it is only artificially so. Instead, the current market, policy, and governance institutions underprice it, and so people continue to use water excessively as if it were not scarce. Most of the innovations are also geared toward expanding command and control of water resources, not toward reducing use as economies develop.

Crop Response Information for Water Institutions

1979 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-232
Author(s):  
Gary D. Lynne ◽  
Roy R. Carriker
Keyword(s):  
Crop Response ◽  
Response Information ◽  
Water Institutions

Closure to “Crop Response Information for Water Institutions”

1981 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-109
Author(s):  
Gary D. Lynne ◽  
Roy R. Carriker
Keyword(s):  
Crop Response ◽  
Response Information ◽  
Water Institutions

Formal and Informal Markets for Water: Institutions, Performance, and Constraints

2018 ◽  
pp. 393-410
Author(s):  
K. William Easter ◽  
Mark W. Rosegrant ◽  
Ariel Dinar
Keyword(s):  
Informal Markets ◽  
Water Institutions
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