Showing papers by "Wai Fung Lam published in 1996"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the successful experience of irrigation governance and management in Taiwan as a means of understanding how joint efforts can be established and sustained through institutional arrangements, including a careful definition of the scope of farmers' participation, complementarity of interests between individuals, reduction of asymmetries involved in the use of authority, and the existence of domains of autonomy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that technological investments might exacerbate the asymmetries of interests and endowments among irrigators, which often dampens their incentives to contribute to infrastructure maintenance.