Library on Governance in Social-Ecological Systems

Local Organization and Bureaucracy in a Lao Irrigation Projec

TitleLocal Organization and Bureaucracy in a Lao Irrigation Projec
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication1980
AuthorsCoward, Jr. EW
Book TitleIrrigation and Agricultural Development in Asia: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
Chapter15
Pagination329-344
PublisherCornell University Press
CityIthaca, New York
Source DocumentAccessible with appropriate permission
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A watercourse on the Nam Tan River, Laos

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The Nam Tam watercourse is located in the province of Xayaboury in Laos. The resource appropriated from Nam Tan is water for irrigation. This irrigation system consists of a watercourse that delivers water from a main canal of the Nam Tai Irrigation System to its adjacent fields. The case describes how a new irrigation project administered by an agency of the central government has incorporated an indigenous irrigation model. The resource users are situated in the area covered by the Nam Tan...
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