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  • INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTSOF WATER MANAGEMENTEVALUATING THE EXPERIENCE; WATER RESOURCE PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF WATER MANAGEMENT EVALUATING THE EXPERIENCE; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN WATERRESOURCES MANAGEMENT; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; WATER USE PROBLEMS AND DEGRADATIONOF NATURAL RESOURCES; WATER, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND INSTITUTIONS; THE NEED FOR INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; ROLE OF STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION IN INSTITUTIONS DESIGN; THEORETICAL FEATURES OF INSTITUTIONS.
  • PURPOSE OF BOOKREFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. POLICIES, INSTITUTIONSAND GOVERNANCE CHALLENGESOF IRRIGATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY1; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS IN THE IRRIGATION SECTOR; POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IRRIGATION GOVERNANCE; The Politics of Water Resources Policy; The Political Economy of Water Pricing Reform; Markets and Water Management; SOME INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES; Dynamics Study with Cross-Sectional Data; Integration of Hydrological Boundary with Political Boundary; Analyzing Effect of Intervention Overtime; Political Economy Approach.
  • Livelihood Asset Pentagon: Analytical Framework for IrrigationSystem Performance AssessmentProperty Rights, Water Rights and Legal Pluralism; GOVERNANCE CHANGE AND COPING MECHANISMS:LOCAL MULTIFUNCTIONAL COOPERATIVES; Farmers-to-Farmer Training Approach; O and M Mechanisms: Changed Participation, TargetedCredit, and Benefit Sharing; Crops/Drops of Water
  • Agricultural Research and Irrigation; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. PRIVATIZATION REVISITED: LESSONS LEARNEDFROM PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATIONIN WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATIONIN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION.
  • MARKET AND MARKET FAILURES:THE ROLE OF PUBLIC SECTORMarket Failures; Non-Market Failures; WATER: AN EXTRAORDINARY GOOD; PUBLIC SECTOR PROVISION OF WSS; Non-Market Failures in WSS; Norms of Successes in Public Water Supply; Lessons Learned: Public Water Utilities; Private Sector Participation in Water Supply and Sanitation; Mobilization of Private Capital; Inadequate Competition; Unclear Productive Efficiency; Pricing Issues; Low Coverage; Norms for Successful PSPs in Developing Countries; Supply Side Conditions; Policy And Institutional Environment; Innovative Measures to Create Competition.
  • Effective Regulatory Mechanism and Contract EnforcementDemand-Side Measures; Lessons Learned: Private Sector Participation; Putting Lessons to Practice; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. DIMENSIONS OF TRANSACTIONS COSTS:A REVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCETO WATER TRADING; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; CONCEPTUAL EVOLUTION OF TRANSACTIONS COSTS:A REVIEW; Transaction costs defined; MEASUREMENT OF TRANSACTION COSTS; TRANSACTIONS COST IN WATER TRADE; Magnitude of Transaction Costs in Tradable Water; TRADABLE WATER RIGHTS:PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; Why Tradable Water Rights?