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Economic and Ecological Transformation Processes in East German Water Management Regimes: The Role of Property Rights and Governance Structures

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dc.contributor.author Schleyer, Christian en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T15:11:28Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T15:11:28Z
dc.date.issued 2002 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-07-30 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-07-30 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3996
dc.description.abstract "Like in many low moor regions in East Germany, long-standing intensive arable farming - enabled by complex melioration - has caused soil deterioration and high water runoff in the 'Schraden'. More than ten years of economic and political transformation has worsened the situation and even added new problems. The visible consequences are drought periods in the summer, waterlogged plots in the spring and worn-down water management facilities that operate in an uncoordinated or even unauthorised way. "It is here argued that the reallocation of property rights on melioration systems, together with ineffective co-ordination mechanisms, have impeded appropriate land use. Transformation-related problems like the discontinuity of land property rights, the unclear legal situation regarding melioration plants built in socialist times, and highly-fragmented land ownership have not been effectively dealt with by the newly-established Water Association and Water Administration, respectively. Profoundly heterogeneous water-user interests and the complexity of ecosystem relations have contributed to the persistence of the problems. "This analysis is based on regional planning material as well as on qualitative, semi-structured interviews with local stakeholders, representatives of the administration and politicians at all levels of government." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries CEESA Discussion Paper, No. 9 en_US
dc.subject water resources en_US
dc.subject property rights en_US
dc.subject privatization en_US
dc.subject law en_US
dc.subject land degradation en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject agriculture en_US
dc.subject CEESA en_US
dc.title Economic and Ecological Transformation Processes in East German Water Management Regimes: The Role of Property Rights and Governance Structures en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US
dc.publisher.workingpaperseries Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany en_US
dc.coverage.region Europe en_US
dc.coverage.country Germany en_US
dc.subject.sector Water Resource & Irrigation en_US
dc.subject.sector Land Tenure & Use en_US
dc.submitter.email thomas.sikor@rz.hu-berlin.de en_US


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