Wai Fung Lam

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a pdf version of their book Governing Irrigation Systems in Nepal: Institutions, Infrastructure, and Collective Action in pdf format, which is available in ePub, DjVu, PDF, doc, and txt formats.

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.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the process and impact of an innovative irrigation assistance project that was initially undertaken in Nepal in the mid-1980s and analyzed data obtained over three time periods related to changes in system structure and performance over time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the social and institutional factors affecting performance of farmer and agency-managed irrigation systems in Nepal and found that strong institutional bases such as effective imposition of fine, social sanctions and employment of local monitors created conducive environment for rule following and mutual trust among the users and yielded higher irrigation performance.