P Wester
Biographic Data
| ID | 3485853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Wester |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Wester |
| SIGNATURE | WESTER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0126-7853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 355 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Call to Action: Sustaining Mountain Environments and Improving Livelihoods
The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is the pulse of the planet. Being at the top of the world, changes happen here before anywhere else, and its beat vibrates across the globe. But urgent actions are required to ensure the health of this global asset and the wellbeing of its people. The uniqueness of HKH mountain people should be recognized and prioritized, and ecosystem services protected by halting biodiversity loss and land degradation. The implemen…
Importance of snow and glacier meltwater for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic Plain
Regulating groundwater use: The challenges of policy implementation in Guanajuato, Central Mexico
Around the world it has proven very difficult to develop policies and interventions that ensure socio-environmentally sustainable groundwater use and exploitation. In the state of Guanajuato, Central Mexico, both the national government and the decentralized state government have pursued to regulate groundwater use through direct state control, groundwater markets, energy pricing, and user self-regulation. We present and analyze these regulatory …
Climate adaptation approaches and key policy characteristics: Cases from South Asia
This paper analyses and assesses how existing policies and approaches in South Asia consider long-term climate change adaptation. Presently, it is unclear what approaches are used in the existing policies to cope with the future climatic changes. Our research framework consists of two components. First, we identify and define key characteristics of adaptation policy approaches based on a review of scientific journal articles. The key characterist…
The Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme: Action to Sustain a Global Asset
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development is coordinating the Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme, which will be carried out with partners and individual experts. The assessment addresses the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable mountain development and will serve as a basis for evidence-based decision-making to safeguard the environment and advance people’s wellbeing. It is not a one-…
Towards characterizing the adaptive capacity of farmer-managed irrigation systems: Learnings from Nepal
Small-scale irrigation systems managed by farmers are facing multiple challenges including competing water demand, climatic variability and change, and socioeconomic transformation. Though the relevant institutions for irrigation management have developed coping and adaptation mechanisms, the intensity and frequency of the changes have weakened their institutional adaptive capacity. Using case examples mostly from Nepal, this paper studies the in…
Hydrosocial territories: A Political Ecology Perspective
We define and explore hydrosocial territories as spatial configurations of people, institutions, water flows, hydraulic technology and the biophysical environment that revolve around the control of water. Territorial politics finds expression in encounters of diverse actors with divergent spatial and political-geographical interests. Their territory-building projections and strategies compete, superimpose and align to strengthen specific water-co…
Intensive groundwater use and (in)equity: Processes and governance challenges
River basin trajectories: Societies, environments and development
Using a variety of case studies, this book provides an overview of how societies have gradually developed their water resources and furthers our understanding of how such resources can be managed successfully or unsuccessfully. Discussing how and why particular options are selected, and why a particular course of events eventually prevails, the book stresses the importance of context and a multidisciplinary approach in moving towards sustainable …
Sand in the Engine: The Travails of an Irrigated Rice Scheme in Bwanje Valley, Malawi
The establishment of the Bwanje Valley Irrigation Scheme (BVIS) in Malawi is a striking example of informed amnesia in development assistance. Despite the lessons learned earlier concerning a process approach to participatory irrigation development in Africa, in the case of BVIS outside interveners designed an irrigation system and parachuted it into Bwanje Valley as a black-boxed technology. Using a sociotechnical approach, this article analyses…
Capturing the waters: The hydraulic mission in the Lerma–Chapala Basin, Mexico (1876–1976)
The hydraulic mission of the Mexican federal government, embodied in its hydraulic bureaucracy (hydrocracy), led to the centralization of water development and the creation of water overexploitation in the Lerma–Chapala Basin between 1876 and 1976. In the late nineteenth century, the federal government began asserting its control over water, both to promote commercial agriculture and to arbitrate in water allocation conflicts between large landow…
Going with the flow: River Basins as the Natural Units for Water Management
This article engages with the currently hegemonic status of a triad of water policy prescriptions: multi-stakeholder platforms, integrated water resources management, and river basin management. A more reflective approach that opens up the choices underlying these concepts, and their limits, is needed. The choice to manage water on the basis of river basins is a political choice, and thus river basins are as much political units as they are natur…
Boundaries of Consent: Stakeholder Representation in River Basin Management in Mexico and South Africa
Hydrosocial territories: A Political Ecology Perspective
We define and explore hydrosocial territories as spatial configurations of people, institutions, water flows, hydraulic technology and the biophysical environment that revolve around the control of water. Territorial politics finds expression in encounters of diverse actors with divergent spatial and political-geographical interests. Their territory-building projections and strategies compete, superimpose and align to strengthen specific water-co…
Going with the flow: River Basins as the Natural Units for Water Management
This article engages with the currently hegemonic status of a triad of water policy prescriptions: multi-stakeholder platforms, integrated water resources management, and river basin management. A more reflective approach that opens up the choices underlying these concepts, and their limits, is needed. The choice to manage water on the basis of river basins is a political choice, and thus river basins are as much political units as they are natur…
Boundaries of Consent: Stakeholder Representation in River Basin Management in Mexico and South Africa
Intensive groundwater use and (in)equity: Processes and governance challenges
Climate adaptation approaches and key policy characteristics: Cases from South Asia
This paper analyses and assesses how existing policies and approaches in South Asia consider long-term climate change adaptation. Presently, it is unclear what approaches are used in the existing policies to cope with the future climatic changes. Our research framework consists of two components. First, we identify and define key characteristics of adaptation policy approaches based on a review of scientific journal articles. The key characterist…
Regulating groundwater use: The challenges of policy implementation in Guanajuato, Central Mexico
Around the world it has proven very difficult to develop policies and interventions that ensure socio-environmentally sustainable groundwater use and exploitation. In the state of Guanajuato, Central Mexico, both the national government and the decentralized state government have pursued to regulate groundwater use through direct state control, groundwater markets, energy pricing, and user self-regulation. We present and analyze these regulatory …
Capturing the waters: The hydraulic mission in the Lerma–Chapala Basin, Mexico (1876–1976)
The hydraulic mission of the Mexican federal government, embodied in its hydraulic bureaucracy (hydrocracy), led to the centralization of water development and the creation of water overexploitation in the Lerma–Chapala Basin between 1876 and 1976. In the late nineteenth century, the federal government began asserting its control over water, both to promote commercial agriculture and to arbitrate in water allocation conflicts between large landow…
Importance of snow and glacier meltwater for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic Plain
Boundaries of Consent: Stakeholder Representation in River Basin Management in Mexico and South Africa
Going with the flow: River Basins as the Natural Units for Water Management
This article engages with the currently hegemonic status of a triad of water policy prescriptions: multi-stakeholder platforms, integrated water resources management, and river basin management. A more reflective approach that opens up the choices underlying these concepts, and their limits, is needed. The choice to manage water on the basis of river basins is a political choice, and thus river basins are as much political units as they are natur…
River basin trajectories: Societies, environments and development
Using a variety of case studies, this book provides an overview of how societies have gradually developed their water resources and furthers our understanding of how such resources can be managed successfully or unsuccessfully. Discussing how and why particular options are selected, and why a particular course of events eventually prevails, the book stresses the importance of context and a multidisciplinary approach in moving towards sustainable …
Sand in the Engine: The Travails of an Irrigated Rice Scheme in Bwanje Valley, Malawi
The establishment of the Bwanje Valley Irrigation Scheme (BVIS) in Malawi is a striking example of informed amnesia in development assistance. Despite the lessons learned earlier concerning a process approach to participatory irrigation development in Africa, in the case of BVIS outside interveners designed an irrigation system and parachuted it into Bwanje Valley as a black-boxed technology. Using a sociotechnical approach, this article analyses…
Capturing the waters: The hydraulic mission in the Lerma–Chapala Basin, Mexico (1876–1976)
The hydraulic mission of the Mexican federal government, embodied in its hydraulic bureaucracy (hydrocracy), led to the centralization of water development and the creation of water overexploitation in the Lerma–Chapala Basin between 1876 and 1976. In the late nineteenth century, the federal government began asserting its control over water, both to promote commercial agriculture and to arbitrate in water allocation conflicts between large landow…
Intensive groundwater use and (in)equity: Processes and governance challenges
The Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme: Action to Sustain a Global Asset
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development is coordinating the Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme, which will be carried out with partners and individual experts. The assessment addresses the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable mountain development and will serve as a basis for evidence-based decision-making to safeguard the environment and advance people’s wellbeing. It is not a one-…
Towards characterizing the adaptive capacity of farmer-managed irrigation systems: Learnings from Nepal
Small-scale irrigation systems managed by farmers are facing multiple challenges including competing water demand, climatic variability and change, and socioeconomic transformation. Though the relevant institutions for irrigation management have developed coping and adaptation mechanisms, the intensity and frequency of the changes have weakened their institutional adaptive capacity. Using case examples mostly from Nepal, this paper studies the in…
Hydrosocial territories: A Political Ecology Perspective
We define and explore hydrosocial territories as spatial configurations of people, institutions, water flows, hydraulic technology and the biophysical environment that revolve around the control of water. Territorial politics finds expression in encounters of diverse actors with divergent spatial and political-geographical interests. Their territory-building projections and strategies compete, superimpose and align to strengthen specific water-co…
Regulating groundwater use: The challenges of policy implementation in Guanajuato, Central Mexico
Around the world it has proven very difficult to develop policies and interventions that ensure socio-environmentally sustainable groundwater use and exploitation. In the state of Guanajuato, Central Mexico, both the national government and the decentralized state government have pursued to regulate groundwater use through direct state control, groundwater markets, energy pricing, and user self-regulation. We present and analyze these regulatory …
Climate adaptation approaches and key policy characteristics: Cases from South Asia
This paper analyses and assesses how existing policies and approaches in South Asia consider long-term climate change adaptation. Presently, it is unclear what approaches are used in the existing policies to cope with the future climatic changes. Our research framework consists of two components. First, we identify and define key characteristics of adaptation policy approaches based on a review of scientific journal articles. The key characterist…
Importance of snow and glacier meltwater for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic Plain
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Call to Action: Sustaining Mountain Environments and Improving Livelihoods
The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is the pulse of the planet. Being at the top of the world, changes happen here before anywhere else, and its beat vibrates across the globe. But urgent actions are required to ensure the health of this global asset and the wellbeing of its people. The uniqueness of HKH mountain people should be recognized and prioritized, and ecosystem services protected by halting biodiversity loss and land degradation. The implemen…
South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater
Geography (10 works) · Environmental planning (8 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (8 works) · Water resources management and optimization (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Business (4 works)