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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Vermillion, Douglas L. |
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Conference:
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Voices from the Commons, the Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property |
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Location:
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Berkeley, CA |
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Conf. Date:
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June 5-8, 1996 |
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Date:
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1996 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1789
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Sector:
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Water Resource & Irrigation |
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Region:
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East Asia |
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Subject(s):
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IASC
irrigation
agriculture
water resources
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Abstract:
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"This paper examines how a process of trial and error with water allocation and negotiations among Balinese farmers in two newly developed irrigation systems in a resettlement area eventually led to a socially recognized and predictable pattern of water rights and allocation. The traditional rule of water rights which allocate water proportionately to area served was recognized by farmers as a simplistic, first approximation. Farmers considered the proportionality rule, per se, as an insufficient basis to create an acceptably equitable distribution of water in an environment where considerable diversity existed between fields in soils, access to secondary water supplies, distance from the headworks, and so on. Through inter-personal exchanges a set of socially-recognized criteria emerged to justify certain farmers in allocating more than proportional amounts of water. Such criteria constituted a 'second approximation' for more equitable water distribution among farmers."
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