How Can Intentionality and Path Dependence Explain Change in Water-Management Institutions in Uzbekistan?
Autor: | Mukhamadkhan Khamidov, Abdulkhakim Salokhiddinov, Ahmad Hamidov, Ulan Kasymov |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
water use path dependence Institutional change intentionality water consumers association media_common.quotation_subject institutional change 0208 environmental biotechnology Psychological intervention 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Perception Political science 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Public economics Integrated water resources management Uzbek language.human_language lcsh:Political institutions and public administration (General) 020801 environmental engineering Intentionality language lcsh:JF20-2112 Path dependence |
Zdroj: | International journal of the commons, 14(1):16–29 International Journal of the Commons, Vol 14, Iss 1 (2020) |
ISSN: | 1875-0281 |
Popis: | We review historical and contemporary literature on change in water-management institutions in post-socialist Uzbekistan, exploring the dynamics of change of formal institutions in irrigation-water management there by analyzing relationships between the perceptions and beliefs of policymakers, policy interventions they undertake, and the consequences that these seem to have on resource-use practices. We have mainly relied on the reviewed literature, but have also made use of expert interviews conducted by the authors during 2011–2016 in Uzbekistan. Our results indicate that Uzbek policymakers have learned much from the unanticipated and undesired consequences of earlier irrigation reforms, as their perceptions and beliefs have changed and developed over time. Yet, although policymakers’ beliefs have been fostered by a newly emergent Integrated Water Resources Management approach – which has become a central, globally promoted paradigm – the beliefs and institutions inherited from the Soviet era, as well as informal practices in irrigation-water use, have also been acting to constrain the choices of politicians and economic entrepreneurs. |
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