Dik Roth
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 87466 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dik Roth |
| NOMBRES | Dik |
| APELLIDO | Roth |
| FIRMA | ROTH D |
| AFILIACIONES | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3703-5245 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Managing ‘great expectations’
Managing 'great expectations': What can land administration realistically achieve?Land administration theory and practice have recently witnessed a turn recognizing and emphasizing the importance of social justice outcomes.While welcome, the practicability of these aspirations is in doubt, not least because of the diversity and complexity of perspectives concerning landrelated problems.We show how a boundary-work approach that does not require co…
The sound of silence
This special issue commemorates Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (1946–2022)
Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia
The book describes how peri-urban changes in water security are experienced and variously acted upon in specific water use contexts.
Interview with Sandrayati Moniaga
Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy
Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia
Rivers as legal subjects
In this review essay, I discuss two books about water law, water rights and water governance. With growing pressures on water caused by soaring demands exerted by agriculture, industry, urbanizatio
After the facts
While the problematic role of knowledge in controversial policy processes is widely acknowledged, relatively little is known about how protesting citizen groups involved in such controversies construct, mobilize and use knowledge. This article explores these issues in two conflicts about planned interventions in the Netherlands. The first case, about energy policies, concerns protests against plans for shale gas extraction. In the second case, co…
The hydro-social dynamics of exclusion and water insecurity of Dalits in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Processes of urbanisation create peri-urban spaces that are socially and institutionally fluid. In this article, we analyse how contestations and competition over declining water resources in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley in Nepal reshape water use, access and rights as well as user communities themselves, by creating and reproducing new and existing exclusions and solidarities. Traditional caste-based discriminatory practices, prohibiting Dalits f…
Rethinking “development”
In this article, we critically review the developmental claims made for the construction of the Rampal power plant in southwestern Bangladesh, in the light of evidence about transformations of land control related to this construction project. Land has become a heavily contested resource in the salinity-intruded southwestern coastal area of Bangladesh. Changes in land control for the construction of the Rampal power plant and similar projects hav…
Eleanor Shoreman-Quimet and Helen Kopnina
Flows of change
Urbanization and the changing climate are increasingly influencing people's access to land and water. Changes in use of, and rights and access to, land and water are most acutely experienced in peri-urban areas. We analyze these changes in peri-urban Kathmandu, Nepal. Increasing pressures on land and growing water needs of an expanding population in Kathmandu Valley are creating new patterns of water use, water-related conflicts, and (in)securiti…
We'll turn your water into Coca-Cola
This article discusses land control strategies and practices for development of large-scale oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. In oil palm and "land grab" literature, much attention is paid to potential contributions of free, prior, and informed consent procedures. However, this article demonstrates how "atomizing" practices obstruct such procedures. Some practices stand out: During a preparatory phase of plantation development, …
Property, legal pluralism, and water rights
In this paper we assess the impact of Franz von Benda-Beckmann's work in the field of water rights. We argue that his contributions to understanding water, a field dominated by engineers and economists, cannot be overestimated. Over the years, Franz's nuanced and empathic anthropological attitude, his suspicion of universals, and his critical stance towards mainstream development thinking have developed into a rich conceptual repertoire for under…
Paradise Contested
The small Indonesian island of Bali is widely known as a global tourist destination. \nAccording to glossy tourist brochures the island is nothing less than a paradise. \nHowever, the flipside of this paradisiacal image is its social and environmental \nproblems and conflicts, related to growing environmental pressures. Bali is far from \nunique: many regions all over the world experience similar processes of change, \nwhether tourism-driven or r…
ReframingTri Hita Karana
This article takes issue with the uncritical way in which claims of ‘culture’, ‘tradition’ or ‘local knowledge’ are used in science and policymaking around the Balinese irrigators' association (subak). The growing problems of Balinese irrigated agriculture are increasingly framed in ‘cultural’ ways that are not neutral: such accounts of irrigated agriculture in relation to Balinese culture deeply influence the world of policymaking. In this artic…
Environmental sustainability and legal plurality in irrigation
Moving out or living on a mound? Jointly planning a Dutch flood adaptation project
The Subak in Diaspora
The subak has a long history as an irrigators' institution on Bali. It has also spread across Indonesia along with Balinese farmers who were resettled by colonial and post-colonial governments or who have migrated spontaneously since colonial times. While subaks have been much researched in Bali itself, little is known about subaks outside Bali. Luwu District in South Sulawesi is one of the areas where thousands of Balinese families settled in th…
Property and Authority in a Migrant Society
Multiple definitions of resources as property lead to competition over legitimate authority between state and non-state organizational and institutional arrangements. This article focuses on the overlapping and competing domains of the water users' association, WUA, and the 'traditional' Balinese irrigators' institution,subak. While the former is backed up by the power of state regulation and administration, the latter derives legitimacy from Bal…
Lebensraum in Luwu
The downfall of the Soeharto regime has radically changed power relations between centre and region in Indonesia. Decentralization and administrative fragmentation (pemekaran), based on Government Regulation 129/2000, have created new opportunities for political actors at all levels. As a result, from the late 1990s, regional autonomy movements have mushroomed. These changes in administrative structures often entail a radical reshuffle of relatio…
Virtual water
“Virtual water,” water needed for crop production, is now being mainstreamed in the water policy world. Relying on virtual water in the form of food imports is increasingly recommended as good policy for water-scarce areas. Virtual water globalizes discussions on water scarcity, ecological sustainability, food security and consumption. Presently the concept is creating much noise in the water and food policy world, which contributes to its politi…
Flood Risk, Uncertainty and Changing River Protection Policy in the Netherlands
Extreme river discharges, floods and debates about climate change triggered a shift in flood protection policy in the Netherlands from infrastructural to spatial measures. The new policy directive of ‘Room for the River’, details of which were introduced in 2000, should prepare the country for future peak discharges. In order to deal with ‘residual risk’, the concept of ‘calamity polders’ for ‘controlled flooding’ was launched in the same year. I…
Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy
ReframingTri Hita Karana
This article takes issue with the uncritical way in which claims of ‘culture’, ‘tradition’ or ‘local knowledge’ are used in science and policymaking around the Balinese irrigators' association (subak). The growing problems of Balinese irrigated agriculture are increasingly framed in ‘cultural’ ways that are not neutral: such accounts of irrigated agriculture in relation to Balinese culture deeply influence the world of policymaking. In this artic…
Moving out or living on a mound? Jointly planning a Dutch flood adaptation project
Virtual water
“Virtual water,” water needed for crop production, is now being mainstreamed in the water policy world. Relying on virtual water in the form of food imports is increasingly recommended as good policy for water-scarce areas. Virtual water globalizes discussions on water scarcity, ecological sustainability, food security and consumption. Presently the concept is creating much noise in the water and food policy world, which contributes to its politi…
Paradise Contested
The small Indonesian island of Bali is widely known as a global tourist destination. \nAccording to glossy tourist brochures the island is nothing less than a paradise. \nHowever, the flipside of this paradisiacal image is its social and environmental \nproblems and conflicts, related to growing environmental pressures. Bali is far from \nunique: many regions all over the world experience similar processes of change, \nwhether tourism-driven or r…
Property and Authority in a Migrant Society
Multiple definitions of resources as property lead to competition over legitimate authority between state and non-state organizational and institutional arrangements. This article focuses on the overlapping and competing domains of the water users' association, WUA, and the 'traditional' Balinese irrigators' institution,subak. While the former is backed up by the power of state regulation and administration, the latter derives legitimacy from Bal…
The Subak in Diaspora
The subak has a long history as an irrigators' institution on Bali. It has also spread across Indonesia along with Balinese farmers who were resettled by colonial and post-colonial governments or who have migrated spontaneously since colonial times. While subaks have been much researched in Bali itself, little is known about subaks outside Bali. Luwu District in South Sulawesi is one of the areas where thousands of Balinese families settled in th…
The hydro-social dynamics of exclusion and water insecurity of Dalits in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Processes of urbanisation create peri-urban spaces that are socially and institutionally fluid. In this article, we analyse how contestations and competition over declining water resources in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley in Nepal reshape water use, access and rights as well as user communities themselves, by creating and reproducing new and existing exclusions and solidarities. Traditional caste-based discriminatory practices, prohibiting Dalits f…
Rethinking “development”
In this article, we critically review the developmental claims made for the construction of the Rampal power plant in southwestern Bangladesh, in the light of evidence about transformations of land control related to this construction project. Land has become a heavily contested resource in the salinity-intruded southwestern coastal area of Bangladesh. Changes in land control for the construction of the Rampal power plant and similar projects hav…
We'll turn your water into Coca-Cola
This article discusses land control strategies and practices for development of large-scale oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. In oil palm and "land grab" literature, much attention is paid to potential contributions of free, prior, and informed consent procedures. However, this article demonstrates how "atomizing" practices obstruct such procedures. Some practices stand out: During a preparatory phase of plantation development, …
Environmental sustainability and legal plurality in irrigation
Flood Risk, Uncertainty and Changing River Protection Policy in the Netherlands
Extreme river discharges, floods and debates about climate change triggered a shift in flood protection policy in the Netherlands from infrastructural to spatial measures. The new policy directive of ‘Room for the River’, details of which were introduced in 2000, should prepare the country for future peak discharges. In order to deal with ‘residual risk’, the concept of ‘calamity polders’ for ‘controlled flooding’ was launched in the same year. I…
After the facts
While the problematic role of knowledge in controversial policy processes is widely acknowledged, relatively little is known about how protesting citizen groups involved in such controversies construct, mobilize and use knowledge. This article explores these issues in two conflicts about planned interventions in the Netherlands. The first case, about energy policies, concerns protests against plans for shale gas extraction. In the second case, co…
Flows of change
Urbanization and the changing climate are increasingly influencing people's access to land and water. Changes in use of, and rights and access to, land and water are most acutely experienced in peri-urban areas. We analyze these changes in peri-urban Kathmandu, Nepal. Increasing pressures on land and growing water needs of an expanding population in Kathmandu Valley are creating new patterns of water use, water-related conflicts, and (in)securiti…
Lebensraum in Luwu
The downfall of the Soeharto regime has radically changed power relations between centre and region in Indonesia. Decentralization and administrative fragmentation (pemekaran), based on Government Regulation 129/2000, have created new opportunities for political actors at all levels. As a result, from the late 1990s, regional autonomy movements have mushroomed. These changes in administrative structures often entail a radical reshuffle of relatio…
Virtual water
“Virtual water,” water needed for crop production, is now being mainstreamed in the water policy world. Relying on virtual water in the form of food imports is increasingly recommended as good policy for water-scarce areas. Virtual water globalizes discussions on water scarcity, ecological sustainability, food security and consumption. Presently the concept is creating much noise in the water and food policy world, which contributes to its politi…
Flood Risk, Uncertainty and Changing River Protection Policy in the Netherlands
Extreme river discharges, floods and debates about climate change triggered a shift in flood protection policy in the Netherlands from infrastructural to spatial measures. The new policy directive of ‘Room for the River’, details of which were introduced in 2000, should prepare the country for future peak discharges. In order to deal with ‘residual risk’, the concept of ‘calamity polders’ for ‘controlled flooding’ was launched in the same year. I…
Property and Authority in a Migrant Society
Multiple definitions of resources as property lead to competition over legitimate authority between state and non-state organizational and institutional arrangements. This article focuses on the overlapping and competing domains of the water users' association, WUA, and the 'traditional' Balinese irrigators' institution,subak. While the former is backed up by the power of state regulation and administration, the latter derives legitimacy from Bal…
Lebensraum in Luwu
The downfall of the Soeharto regime has radically changed power relations between centre and region in Indonesia. Decentralization and administrative fragmentation (pemekaran), based on Government Regulation 129/2000, have created new opportunities for political actors at all levels. As a result, from the late 1990s, regional autonomy movements have mushroomed. These changes in administrative structures often entail a radical reshuffle of relatio…
The Subak in Diaspora
The subak has a long history as an irrigators' institution on Bali. It has also spread across Indonesia along with Balinese farmers who were resettled by colonial and post-colonial governments or who have migrated spontaneously since colonial times. While subaks have been much researched in Bali itself, little is known about subaks outside Bali. Luwu District in South Sulawesi is one of the areas where thousands of Balinese families settled in th…
Environmental sustainability and legal plurality in irrigation
Moving out or living on a mound? Jointly planning a Dutch flood adaptation project
Property, legal pluralism, and water rights
In this paper we assess the impact of Franz von Benda-Beckmann's work in the field of water rights. We argue that his contributions to understanding water, a field dominated by engineers and economists, cannot be overestimated. Over the years, Franz's nuanced and empathic anthropological attitude, his suspicion of universals, and his critical stance towards mainstream development thinking have developed into a rich conceptual repertoire for under…
Paradise Contested
The small Indonesian island of Bali is widely known as a global tourist destination. \nAccording to glossy tourist brochures the island is nothing less than a paradise. \nHowever, the flipside of this paradisiacal image is its social and environmental \nproblems and conflicts, related to growing environmental pressures. Bali is far from \nunique: many regions all over the world experience similar processes of change, \nwhether tourism-driven or r…
ReframingTri Hita Karana
This article takes issue with the uncritical way in which claims of ‘culture’, ‘tradition’ or ‘local knowledge’ are used in science and policymaking around the Balinese irrigators' association (subak). The growing problems of Balinese irrigated agriculture are increasingly framed in ‘cultural’ ways that are not neutral: such accounts of irrigated agriculture in relation to Balinese culture deeply influence the world of policymaking. In this artic…
Eleanor Shoreman-Quimet and Helen Kopnina
Flows of change
Urbanization and the changing climate are increasingly influencing people's access to land and water. Changes in use of, and rights and access to, land and water are most acutely experienced in peri-urban areas. We analyze these changes in peri-urban Kathmandu, Nepal. Increasing pressures on land and growing water needs of an expanding population in Kathmandu Valley are creating new patterns of water use, water-related conflicts, and (in)securiti…
We'll turn your water into Coca-Cola
This article discusses land control strategies and practices for development of large-scale oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. In oil palm and "land grab" literature, much attention is paid to potential contributions of free, prior, and informed consent procedures. However, this article demonstrates how "atomizing" practices obstruct such procedures. Some practices stand out: During a preparatory phase of plantation development, …
Rivers as legal subjects
In this review essay, I discuss two books about water law, water rights and water governance. With growing pressures on water caused by soaring demands exerted by agriculture, industry, urbanizatio
After the facts
While the problematic role of knowledge in controversial policy processes is widely acknowledged, relatively little is known about how protesting citizen groups involved in such controversies construct, mobilize and use knowledge. This article explores these issues in two conflicts about planned interventions in the Netherlands. The first case, about energy policies, concerns protests against plans for shale gas extraction. In the second case, co…
The hydro-social dynamics of exclusion and water insecurity of Dalits in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Processes of urbanisation create peri-urban spaces that are socially and institutionally fluid. In this article, we analyse how contestations and competition over declining water resources in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley in Nepal reshape water use, access and rights as well as user communities themselves, by creating and reproducing new and existing exclusions and solidarities. Traditional caste-based discriminatory practices, prohibiting Dalits f…
Rethinking “development”
In this article, we critically review the developmental claims made for the construction of the Rampal power plant in southwestern Bangladesh, in the light of evidence about transformations of land control related to this construction project. Land has become a heavily contested resource in the salinity-intruded southwestern coastal area of Bangladesh. Changes in land control for the construction of the Rampal power plant and similar projects hav…
Interview with Sandrayati Moniaga
Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy
Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia
Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia
The book describes how peri-urban changes in water security are experienced and variously acted upon in specific water use contexts.
This special issue commemorates Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (1946–2022)
Managing ‘great expectations’
Managing 'great expectations': What can land administration realistically achieve?Land administration theory and practice have recently witnessed a turn recognizing and emphasizing the importance of social justice outcomes.While welcome, the practicability of these aspirations is in doubt, not least because of the diversity and complexity of perspectives concerning landrelated problems.We show how a boundary-work approach that does not require co…
The sound of silence
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