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Emerging Issues in Water Resources Management in Swaziland

Mlilo, P.; Mhlanga, N. B.; Senzanje, A. - 2008

"Water is central to the economy of Swaziland as it contributes significantly to GDP via agriculture export earnings …. The health sector and communications are also expanding in response to investments in irrigated agriculture. This key … increasing demand. That paper concludes that the irrigation sub-sector shapes water policy ahead of other sectors like tourism …

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Conflicts and Value Trade-Offs in the Management of Common Property: Insights from Land Use Studies in the Australian Sugar Industry

Mallawaarachchi, Thilak - 2001

"Traditionally, benefits of common property arrangements arose from complementarity in resource use, which permitted multiple uses for several users. Today, common property resources (CPRs) represent quasi-public goods, featuring increasing rivalry in consumption. As the domain of uses widens...

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Determinants of Papyrus Harvesting in the Yala Swamp, Kenya

Mwakubo, S. M.; Ikiara, M. M. - 2008

"Using data from a 2005 field survey, this paper examines the factors that drive papyrus-harvesting pressure in the Yala wetlands. Descriptive statistics were used to understand the socio-economic characteristics of papyrus harvesters and the papyrus production process while a truncated Tobit...

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Private Exchange and Social Capital: Multiple Functions of Common Property Regimes in Haiti

White, T. Anderson - 1996

forest or irrigation system). Increasingly, practitioners and researchers realize that individuals often contribute to …

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Mechanisms of Resilience in Common-pool Resource Management Systems: An Agent-based Model of Water Use in a River Basin

Schluter, Maja; Pahl-Wostl, Claudia - 2007

its delta are used to sustain irrigated agriculture as well as aquatic ecosystems that provide fish and other ecosystem … services. The three subsystems of the social- ecological system, i.e., the social system, the irrigation system, and an aquatic … agents with orders from a national authority, the centralized system performs better as long as irrigation is the only type …

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Evidence Based Farmer Decision Models to Assess the Potential for Multiple Benefit Carbon Trading

Ward, John R.; Bryan, B.A.; Crossman, N.D.; King, D. - 2008

"Planning efforts in the SA Murray Darling Basin (SAMDB) have focused on the revegetation of degraded, privately held agricultural land, using locally native species, to meet prescribed resource condition targets of increased biodiversity, carbon sequestration, salinity and wind erosion...

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Adoption and Impacts of Zero Tillage as a Resource Conserving Technology in the Irrigated Plains of South Asia

Erenstein, Olaf; Farooq, Umar; Malik, R. K.; Sharif, … - 2007

"The recent stagnation of productivity growth in the irrigated areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia has led to a quest for resource-conserving technologies that can save water, reduce production costs and improve production. The present synthesis of two detailed country studies...

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Chaos on the Commons: Considering the Implications of Nonequilibrium Theory for Common Property Research

Morgan, Betty - 1995

recent theoretical developments in nonequilibrium analysis. Using the Navaho Indian Irrigation Project as a case study, this … the developmental history of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project from a nonequilibrium perspective. The paper concludes …

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Agricultural production under climate change : the potential impacts of shifting regional water balances in the United States

Marshall, Elizabeth; Aillery, Marcel; Malcolm, Scott; … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 97 (2015) 2, pp. 568-588

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Climate Change, Water Scarcity in Agriculture and the Economy-Wide Impacts in a CGE Framework

Ponce, Roberto; Parrado, Ramiro; Stehr, Alejandra; … - 2016

, precipitation changes, and unitary irrigation costs. Results suggest different economic consequences of climate change depending on …

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