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Interactive institutional design and contextual relevance: water user groups in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan

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Title Interactive institutional design and contextual relevance: water user groups in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan
 
Creator Mukhtarov, F.
Fox, S.
Mukhamedova, Nozilakhon
Wegerich, Kai
 
Subject institution building
water users associations
collective action
policy making
water governance
water management
irrigation management
stakeholders
case studies
 
Description Institutional design for water governance assumes the possibility of intentional introduction of policy innovations into the new contexts or amending existing institutions. Such institutional design has been common in the water sector and examples include participatory irrigation management, integrated water resources management plans and water privatization programmes. With increasing application of institutional design across various political, socio-economic and cultural settings, the importance of the context is increasingly accepted. The key question is therefore how to reconcile institutional design and contextual variability. Based on our research on the introduction of water user associations in parts of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, we conclude that a top-down institutional design implemented nation-wide and not involving multiple stakeholders and engaging their views, is doomed to failure. As an alternative, we offer interactive institutional design, which is based on collaborative approaches to institutional design and treats design as works of assemblage.
 
Date 2014
2015-03-17T14:39:59Z
2015-03-17T14:39:59Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Mukhtarov, F.; Fox, S.; Mukhamedova, Nozilakhon; Wegerich, Kai. 2014. Interactive institutional design and contextual relevance: water user groups in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. Environmental Science and Policy, 9p. (Online first) doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2014.10.006
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/58441
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2014.10.006
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Land and Water Productivity
 
Language en
 
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