Social Capital and Irrigation Resource Management in Japan

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8255
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Sarker, Ashutosh; Itoh, Tadao
Conference:	Mini-Conference of the Queensland Center for Climate Application
Location:	Toowoomba, Australia
Conf. Date:	July 12
Date:	1999
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8255
Sector:	Social Organization Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	East Asia
Subject(s):	social capital irrigation resource management common pool resources institutional analysis Workshop
Abstract:	"This paper concerns an empirical case study on the collective action of a large number of irrigators who successfully manage their large-scale irrigation system, a humanly-made closed-access common-pool resource (CPR) in Japan. While government's economic investment is important, the study has observed that the social capital that the irrigators have traditionally built in is a critical factor for the successful self-management of common irrigation resource system. When Japanese government invests in physical capital, it plays a supportive role attaching a special priority to the irrigators' social capital and does not coerce them to manage their irrigation system."

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