Robustness, Vulnerability, and Adaptive Capacity in Small-Scale Social- Ecological Systems: The Pumpa Irrigation System in Nepal

dc.contributor.authorCifdaloz, Oguzhan
dc.contributor.authorRegmi, Ashok
dc.contributor.authorAnderies, John M.
dc.contributor.authorRodriguez, Armando A.
dc.coverage.countryNepalen_US
dc.coverage.regionMiddle East & South Asiaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-29T19:22:42Z
dc.date.available2010-10-29T19:22:42Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstract"Change in freshwater availability is arguably one of the most pressing issues associated with global change. Agriculture, which uses roughly 70% of the total global freshwater supply, figures prominently among sectors that may be adversely affected. Of specific concern are small-scale agricultural systems that make up nearly 90% of all farming systems and produce 40% of agricultural output worldwide. These systems are experiencing a range of novel shocks including increased variability in precipitation and competing demands for water and labor that challenge their capacity to maintain agricultural output. This paper employs a robustness- vulnerability trade-off framework to explore the capacity of such systems to cope with novel shocks and directed change. Motivated by the Pumpa Irrigation System in Nepal, we develop and analyze a simple model of rice-paddy irrigation and use it to demonstrate how institutional arrangements may, in becoming very well tuned to cope with specific shocks and manage particular human interactions associated with irrigated agriculture, generate vulnerabilities to novel shocks. This characterization of robustness-vulnerability trade-off relationships is then used to inform policy options to improve the capacity of small-scale irrigation systems to adapt to changes in freshwater availability."en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdatesSep. 30-Oct. 2en_US
dc.identifier.citationconferenceCapturing the Complexity of the Commons, North American Regional Meeting of the International Association for the Study of the Commonsen_US
dc.identifier.citationconflocArizona State University, Tempe, AZen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/6530
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subjectagricultureen_US
dc.subjectirrigationen_US
dc.subjectsocial-ecological systemsen_US
dc.subjectvulnerabilityen_US
dc.subject.sectorAgricultureen_US
dc.subject.sectorWater Resource & Irrigationen_US
dc.titleRobustness, Vulnerability, and Adaptive Capacity in Small-Scale Social- Ecological Systems: The Pumpa Irrigation System in Nepalen_US
dc.typeConference Paperen_US
dc.type.methodologyCase Studyen_US
dc.type.publishedunpublisheden_US

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