Understanding water institutions: structure, environment, and change process
Water institutions are critical for enhancing the development impact of water resource management. But, considerable ambiguity and divergence persists as to the way they are to be approached and evaluated causing serious conceptual and policy distortions. Utilizing some recent developments in the li...
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| author | Saleth, Rathinasamy Maria |
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| description | Water institutions are critical for enhancing the development impact of water resource management. But, considerable ambiguity and divergence persists as to the way they are to be approached and evaluated causing serious conceptual and policy distortions. Utilizing some recent developments in the literature on the subject, this paper presents a simple but generalizable framework for understanding, explaining, and evaluating water institutions and their change process. It uses an analytical decomposition of water institutions to show their endogenous and exogenous linkages, transaction cost approach to conceptually account for the role of various factors, and a stage-based perspective to shed light on the internal mechanics and dynamics evident in the process of water institutional change. Despite its analytical and theoretical orientation, the paper does have some major implications for the practical and policy dimensions of water institutional reforms. It indicates how the institutional design and implementation principles derived from the structure and context of water institutions can be used to promote reforms and demonstrates how a better understanding of the change process can lead to strategies for setting the overall reform climate, especially through public education, reform research, and institutional supply |
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| spelling | CGSpace386572021-10-07T15:20:21Z Understanding water institutions: structure, environment, and change process Saleth, Rathinasamy Maria institutional development design water management organizational change costs Water institutions are critical for enhancing the development impact of water resource management. But, considerable ambiguity and divergence persists as to the way they are to be approached and evaluated causing serious conceptual and policy distortions. Utilizing some recent developments in the literature on the subject, this paper presents a simple but generalizable framework for understanding, explaining, and evaluating water institutions and their change process. It uses an analytical decomposition of water institutions to show their endogenous and exogenous linkages, transaction cost approach to conceptually account for the role of various factors, and a stage-based perspective to shed light on the internal mechanics and dynamics evident in the process of water institutional change. Despite its analytical and theoretical orientation, the paper does have some major implications for the practical and policy dimensions of water institutional reforms. It indicates how the institutional design and implementation principles derived from the structure and context of water institutions can be used to promote reforms and demonstrates how a better understanding of the change process can lead to strategies for setting the overall reform climate, especially through public education, reform research, and institutional supply 2004 2014-06-13T11:42:37Z 2014-06-13T11:42:37Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38657 en Limited Access Saleth, Rathinasamy Maria. 2004. Understanding water institutions: structure, environment, and change process. Keynote paper delivered at the International Workshop on Water Resources Management for Local Development: Governance, Institutions, and Policies, Loskop Dam, South Africa, 8-10 November 2004. 18p. |
| spellingShingle | institutional development design water management organizational change costs Saleth, Rathinasamy Maria Understanding water institutions: structure, environment, and change process |
| title | Understanding water institutions: structure, environment, and change process |
| title_full | Understanding water institutions: structure, environment, and change process |
| title_fullStr | Understanding water institutions: structure, environment, and change process |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding water institutions: structure, environment, and change process |
| title_short | Understanding water institutions: structure, environment, and change process |
| title_sort | understanding water institutions structure environment and change process |
| topic | institutional development design water management organizational change costs |
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