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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Prahladachar, M. |
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Conference:
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Designing Sustainability on the Commons, the First Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property |
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Location:
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Duke University, Durham, NC |
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Conf. Date:
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September 27-30, 1990 |
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Date:
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1990 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5577
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Sector:
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Water Resource & Irrigation |
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Region:
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Middle East & South Asia |
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Subject(s):
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groundwater
irrigation
resource management
IASC
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Abstract:
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"Empirical evidence emanating from many parts of India indicates that large farmers due to their advantageous resource position and enjoying bureaucratic-political influence have appropriated the gains of lift irrigation disproportionately more than the small farmers. In this situation the use and management of groundwater - a CPR -calls forth, especially in water-scarce hard rock regions, for innovative institutional arrangements to assure an improvement in access to small farmers. For such innovative institutional arrangements to emerge and succeed, appropriate policy prescriptions are required on several fronts like groundwater legislation, land reforms, pricing of water, pricing of electricity and so on. The paper examines critically some of these innovative experiments in hardrock regions in India."
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