Showing papers in "Water Resources and Rural Development in 2017"

TL;DR: In this article, a review of short and long-term adaptation strategies in rain fed and irrigated rice production systems under two climate change scenarios, specifically temperature increases and drought incidence, is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the literature written from both practice-focused and critical-academic perspectives and identify three areas that pose challenges to our understanding of water point functionality as it relates to CBM.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate household-led practices that have occurred in the wake of the scheme operation across three flood-prone areas in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, and highlight the increased recognition of rural households' role in contributing farming initiatives to the reframing process of local adaptation policies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the social impacts of reservoir construction and management on communities located downstream from four hydropower projects in central Laos using the sustainable livelihoods framework to categorise and quantify impacts across environmental, financial, physical, human and social domains.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored sixteen public ports in the rural U.S. State of Mississippi to shed light on how rural port authorities can operationally better support economic development efforts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate farmers' sources of information and perceptions on soil and water management technologies, and find that government extension agents, farmer-to-farmer extension and non-governmental organizations were the main sources for information on soil management technologies at all the sites.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the scale of local economic benefits arising from recreational angling tourism in a rural community in Ireland using survey data of recreational anglers in the remote, coastal village of Waterville in Co. Kerry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of research on the factors that influence drinking-water security and the relationship between this and the determinants of rural water demand in canton Cotacachi, a region in the North-East part of Ecuador.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply critical mass theory to community waterpoint financial contributions in rural sub-Saharan Africa and empirically evaluate the presence of critical mass points, cooperative equilibria and self-reinforcing growth dynamics.

TL;DR: In this article, the impacts of access to piped water on drinking water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes in marginalized rural households of north-western Bangladesh, using a quasi-experimental setup.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential of a market in water, for improving water management in a small river basin wherein sixteen villages are the primary beneficiaries of a reservoir on the Varaha River, was considered.