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Managing Salinization

Institutional Analysis of Public Irrigation Systems

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  • © 1997

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  1. Waltina Scheumann

    1. Berlin, Germany

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Introduction

    • Waltina Scheumann
    Pages 1-14

  3. Theories on the Provision and Supply of Goods and Services Through the Political and Bureaucratic System

    • Waltina Scheumann
    Pages 15-39

  4. Literature Review on Large-Scale Public and Small-Scale Farmer Irrigation Systems

    • Waltina Scheumann
    Pages 41-78

  5. The Implementation Process of the Lower Seyhan Irrigation Project, with Special Reference to Means of High Groundwater and Salinity Control

    • Waltina Scheumann
    Pages 79-130

  6. Contributions to High Groundwater Levels and Salinity Caused by the Operation and Maintenance of the Lower Seyhan Irrigation Project

    • Waltina Scheumann
    Pages 131-179

  7. Effects of High Groundwater Levels, Waterlogging and Salinity on Farm Economy

    • Waltina Scheumann
    Pages 181-209

  8. Discussion and Outlook

    • Waltina Scheumann
    Pages 211-228

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 229-274
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Salinization of soils is a major threat to irrigated agriculture and counteracts the targets of costly public infrastructure investments. In this study, salinization is regarded as the outcome of an institutional arrangement which impedes the effective implementation of well-known and well-established control measures be they technical, managerial or economic. In public irrigation systems neither the management units nor the farmers are offered any incentives towards the control of high groundwater levels and salinization if the management units are embedded in a highly centralized non-market institutional setting. The author answers the question under which conditions management units and irrigators are active in halting and reversing the process of salinization.

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  • Berlin, Germany

    Waltina Scheumann

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