Project

Isntitutional and spatial analysis of water sharing mechanism of a river basin in India

Code
01W01207
Duration
01 November 2007 → 31 October 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Applied economics
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Agriculture, land and farm management
Keywords
water governance property rights space-time interaction
 
Project description

Objectives are to analyze existing water governance structure, political choice of sharing mechanism and the spatial distribution pattern of irrigation water, valuate property rights and to devleop a Spatio-Temporal model for water sharing for efficient sharing. Here water institutions, space-time interactions and water pricing are used in modeling of water sharing (bayesian modeling) and political economy models for water governance.