Assessing Action Situation Networks : A Configurational Perspective on Water and Energy Governance in Irrigation Systems

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2382624X18500054" target="_blank" >https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2382624X18500054</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S2382624X18500054" target="_blank" >10.1142/S2382624X18500054</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessing Action Situation Networks : A Configurational Perspective on Water and Energy Governance in Irrigation Systems

Original language description

The action situation is a core component of actor-centered institutional analysis of natural resource governance. Institutional analysis frameworks have been extended to observe multiple situations structured into networks. If further operationalized, this extension can improve policy diagnosis of human–environmental interactions. This paper proposes two complementary ways to move in that direction. First, we propose the use of qualitative configurational analysis and game theory to study the interactions between situations and assess the contribution of each to a desired outcome. Second, we draw on centrality measures to assess the benefits and risks of implementing policies that aim to change the equilibria in action situations. Both analytical strategies are applied to two cases involving irrigation and energy governance. In the Spanish case, centrality of the water allocation situation justifies a configuration of drought measures that also tackle cooperation in monitoring and infrastructure maintenance. In the Indian case, groundwater governance and adequate infrastructure capacity provision are necessary preconditions to enable coordinated technology adoption, which facilitates incentives for regulated irrigation. In both the cases, some action situations’ positive outcomes are necessary in every configuration to guarantee optimal equilibria in the network. In the context of energy-fed irrigation systems, the proposed analytical strategies permit integrating interactions between water use, energy use and food production decisions in policy diagnoses. The analysis can be extended to identify archetypes, network closure, as well as structural and functional connectivity of networks in social-ecological systems.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50900 - Other social sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Water Economics and Policy

ISSN

2382-624X

e-ISSN

2382-6258

Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CN - CHINA

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

1-29

UT code for WoS article

000457297400003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85066408798