Design principles in long-enduring institutions of Japanese irrigation common-pool resources

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 89-102

  Sarker, Ashutosh ^a   Itoh, Tadao ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Common pool resources; Design principles; Irrigation institutions; Land improvement districts; Self governance

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DESIGN; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; WATER MANAGEMENT;

JAPAN;

EID: 0035036651     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3774(00)00125-6     Document Type: Article

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