Thursday, October 07, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS: Water Alternatives Special Issue on Policies, Politics & Realities of Small Irrigation Dams in the Rural South
The focus of this special issue of Water Alternatives is on small scale dams for multiple uses -including irrigation- that assume or involve some kind of communal management by a group of individuals or a local organization (namely small reservoirs and micro-dams in sub-Saharan and North Africa, tanks in South Asia, açudes in Northeast Brazil, etc); rather than on individual/privately-led initiatives.
Papers are invited bringing insights from different regions of the world, and notably sub-Saharan and North Africa, South Asia, and Latin America on the following topics:
- Dynamics and challenges of knowledge production on small multipurpose dams;
- Global discourses and politics of small reservoirs development and management (roles and interactions between international agencies, national government and local communities);
- Linkages between small irrigation dams and broader policy trends (decentralization, IWRM);
- Small dams and land dynamics (incl. land planning and multiple tenure systems);
- Local politics and institutional arrangements for the management of small dam-based irrigation projects (including the determinants and challenges of collective action for water management and the impacts of private initiative on communally managed irrigation);
- Poverty and equity (incl. gender) dimensions of small reservoirs;
- Multiple dimensions and uses of small dam based irrigation projects;
- Economics of small reservoirs and socio-political limitations of economic-based assessment;
Deadline: November 15, 2010
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