Title | Local Organization and Bureaucracy in a Lao Irrigation Projec |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 1980 |
Authors | Coward, Jr. EW |
Book Title | Irrigation and Agricultural Development in Asia: Perspectives from the Social Sciences |
Chapter | 15 |
Pagination | 329-344 |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
City | Ithaca, New York |
Source Document | Accessible with appropriate permission |
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A watercourse on the Nam Tan River, Laos | Case |
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... | 09 Aug 2016 |