Collective Action & Property Rights News: CALL FOR PAPERS: Water Commons: Devising Diverse Solutions (Special Issue of Water International)

Monday, September 19, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS: Water Commons: Devising Diverse Solutions (Special Issue of Water International)

This Special Issue is inspired by the 2011 meeting of the International Association for the Study of Commons in which issues of the commons with respect to agricultural water received special attention. The Special Issue seeks a set of papers to address the interrelated issues of configuring and re-configuring water governance to diverse and changing situations and goals. Papers may look at how approaches have been or could be customized to fit particular contexts, particularly where the framing of problems, exploration of solutions, and views about what would be considered success or failure are often contested and negotiated over time. Authors will share research findings and ideas that can inform the work of those studying and managing shared water resources. Topics to be addressed may include:

Opportunities, challenges, and key issues for institutional design in facilitating collective action to manage intensively used groundwater
New insights from participatory irrigation reforms, how changes have (or have not) led to results, and innovative ways of moving forward to improve institutional performance in particular situations
Multiple, context-dependent paths for reorganizing river basin governance
Dynamics of how citizens of water commons adapt governance
Roles of values and deliberation in crafting and revitalizing water commons, and in augmenting institutional analysis of water governance
How changes in water management creatively remix the roles of state agencies, communities, and water users, devising diverse solutions to fit specific situations and goals in governing water commons

Water International Special Journal Issue: July 2013
Water Commons: Devising Diverse Solutions

Editors
Everisto Mapedza: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Bryan Bruns: Consulting Sociologist
Mark Giordano: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Deadlines:

Call for papers: 30 September 2011
Submission of first manuscripts (full paper or extended abstract 500-2000 words): 30 October 2011
Communication of initial screening and comments to authors: 30 November 2011
Submission of revised manuscripts: 29 February 2012
Communication of peer review to authors: 30 May 2012
Revised manuscripts (final manuscript length: 7000 words and not exceeding 14 printed pages [all-inclusive]): 30 July 2012
Communication of second Round of manuscript reviews to authors: 30 August 2012
Submission of revised papers: 30 October 2012

Communications should be sent to e.mapedza@cgiar.org with copies to bryanbruns@yahoo.com and MARK.GIORDANO@CGIAR.ORG.

Deadline: September 30, 2011