E Walter Coward
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Walter Coward |
| GIVEN NAMES | E Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Coward |
| SIGNATURE | COWARD E W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tai Valley-based Polities and the Uplands in Montane Southeast Asia
The domains of earlier Tai muangs—the social spaces governed by various Tai groups—in the highlands of montane Southeast Asia frequently incorporated both upland valleys and the flanking, sloping lands used by various Tai and non-Tai groups. The articulation of the land uses and livelihood activities of these two landscapes of the muangs served to reproduce these Tai polities. The ideas and actions of both the ruling Tai groups and the subaltern …
Property Rights and Network Order: The Case of Irrigation Works in the Western Himalayas
In the middle of the 19th century, as part of their governance of the Punjab region, the British surveyed existing property rights in Kangra District (now an administrative unit in Himachal Pradesh). The British included in this survey the recording of irrigation rights. This research explores the relationships between these British-recorded irrigation rights and the contemporary organization and operations of a local irrigation network (kuhl). A…
Fairness in irrigation development
Principles of Social Organization in an Indigenous Irrigation System
Indigenous organisation, bureaucracy and development: The case of irrigation
Increasingly, irrigation development is implemented through large‐scale projects constructed and operated by the central government. In such projects, successful articulation between the project administrators and water users is often absent. In locations where the project serves local water users with previous irrigation experience, one solution to this problem is the adaptation of indigenous irrigation leadership roles to link the water bureauc…
Sociological Perspectives of Domestic Development
Sociological Perspectives of Domestic Development
Conceptualizing and Measuring the Diffusion of Innovations
CONCEPTUALIZING AND MEASURING THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONSThis presentation has discussed a conceptualization and measurement of extent of diffusion that closely approximates the theoretical definition of diffusion as the spread of an innovation. Rather than equating extent of diffusion with the proportion of adoption units in the adoption stage it is equated with the proportion of adoption units in each stage of the adoption process. The discuss…
The Differentiation of Synaptic Leadership in Rural Laos
In Thailand and Laos modernization may lead to replacing multipurpose synaptor roles (such as displayed by village headmen) by more specialized, or differentiated synaptor roles.The observation of modern irrigation projects in Sayaboury, Laos supports this view. In one small irrigation system a new role of “lateral chief” has been created to act as a link (synaptor) between a small group of water users supplied from a common lateral and the extra…
Principles of Social Organization in an Indigenous Irrigation System
Property Rights and Network Order: The Case of Irrigation Works in the Western Himalayas
In the middle of the 19th century, as part of their governance of the Punjab region, the British surveyed existing property rights in Kangra District (now an administrative unit in Himachal Pradesh). The British included in this survey the recording of irrigation rights. This research explores the relationships between these British-recorded irrigation rights and the contemporary organization and operations of a local irrigation network (kuhl). A…
Fairness in irrigation development
The Differentiation of Synaptic Leadership in Rural Laos
In Thailand and Laos modernization may lead to replacing multipurpose synaptor roles (such as displayed by village headmen) by more specialized, or differentiated synaptor roles.The observation of modern irrigation projects in Sayaboury, Laos supports this view. In one small irrigation system a new role of “lateral chief” has been created to act as a link (synaptor) between a small group of water users supplied from a common lateral and the extra…
Conceptualizing and Measuring the Diffusion of Innovations
CONCEPTUALIZING AND MEASURING THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONSThis presentation has discussed a conceptualization and measurement of extent of diffusion that closely approximates the theoretical definition of diffusion as the spread of an innovation. Rather than equating extent of diffusion with the proportion of adoption units in the adoption stage it is equated with the proportion of adoption units in each stage of the adoption process. The discuss…
Sociological Perspectives of Domestic Development
Sociological Perspectives of Domestic Development
Indigenous organisation, bureaucracy and development: The case of irrigation
Increasingly, irrigation development is implemented through large‐scale projects constructed and operated by the central government. In such projects, successful articulation between the project administrators and water users is often absent. In locations where the project serves local water users with previous irrigation experience, one solution to this problem is the adaptation of indigenous irrigation leadership roles to link the water bureauc…
Principles of Social Organization in an Indigenous Irrigation System
Fairness in irrigation development
Property Rights and Network Order: The Case of Irrigation Works in the Western Himalayas
In the middle of the 19th century, as part of their governance of the Punjab region, the British surveyed existing property rights in Kangra District (now an administrative unit in Himachal Pradesh). The British included in this survey the recording of irrigation rights. This research explores the relationships between these British-recorded irrigation rights and the contemporary organization and operations of a local irrigation network (kuhl). A…
Tai Valley-based Polities and the Uplands in Montane Southeast Asia
The domains of earlier Tai muangs—the social spaces governed by various Tai groups—in the highlands of montane Southeast Asia frequently incorporated both upland valleys and the flanking, sloping lands used by various Tai and non-Tai groups. The articulation of the land uses and livelihood activities of these two landscapes of the muangs served to reproduce these Tai polities. The ideas and actions of both the ruling Tai groups and the subaltern …
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Irrigation (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Agency (philosophy) (3 works) · Ecology (3 works)