Norman Uphoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 389050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Uphoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | Uphoff |
| SIGNATURE | UPHOFF N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2868-6046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 270 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Learning from Gal Oya: Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science
This book recounts the drama of a remarkably successful program that introduced farmer organization for self managed development in the largest and most run-down irrigation system in Sri Lanka. In an unusual combination of description and analysis, Norman Uphoff presents and interprets the Gal Oya experience, drawing far-reaching conclusions for participatory development and contemporary social science. The major portion of the book deals with co…
The Political Economy of Change
"Ilchman and Uphoff believe that political science has failed in the past to meet its own standards of rigor and cogency and does not meet standards of usefulness and relevance set by others. The Political Economy of Change attempts to remedy these shortcomings by expanding the limits of social science analysis to deal with problems of allocation and productivity in all spheres of public choice, not just the economic sphere."--Provided by publish…
Systems thinking on intensification and sustainability: Systems boundaries, processes and dimensions
Common Expositional Problems in Students' Papers and Theses
Words should be chosen and used carefully so that they convey the meaning or meanings that you intend—and do not convey any unintended or double meanings. Writing should leave little ambiguity or uncertainty about what you are referring to—unless some purposeful ambiguity is desired. Sometimes words that are abstract or superficial may be chosen to suit the writer's purpose. For example, there is a long tradition of euphemistic writing. But such …
Agroecological alternatives: Capitalising on existing genetic potentials
Contemporary debates on whether or not transgenic innovations will be beneficial for the poor should consider also whether other methods could achieve the same objectives. This article discusses agroecological approaches, and specifically the system of rice intensification (SRI), which is showing that it can meet food production needs of the poor relatively quickly, simply, cost-effectively and in an environmentally-benign manner. SRI is raising …
Reducing the Vulnerability of Rural Households through Agroecological Practice: Considering the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
Le système de riziculture intensive est un système de culture basé sur les principes de l'agroécologie, qui mobilise les potentiels biologiques des sols et des plantes. Il a montré dans de nombreux pays qu'il est possible d'accroître les rendements par une gestion différente des plantes, du sol, de l'eau et des nutriments, tout en diminuant à la fois la dépendance aux intrants chimiques, les coûts de production et le travail requis. Cet article e…
Demonstrated Benefits from Social Capital: The Productivity of Farmer Organizations in Gal Oya, Sri Lanka
Agroecological Implications of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Madagascar
Learning About and For Participation: From Theoretical and Empirical Studies to Practical Experience, and back to Theory
(1998). Learning About and For Participation: From Theoretical and Empirical Studies to Practical Experience, and back to Theory. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 439-460
Learning from Gal Oya - Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science
This first paperback edition recounts the drama of a remarkably successful experiment that introduced farmer organization for self-managed development in the largest and most run-down conflict-ridden irrigation system in Sri Lanka and now updates the story to record the author's picture of Gal Oya in 1996. Norman Uphoff draws far reaching conclusions from the Gal Oya project for participatory development and contemporary social science. He docume…
Collaborations as an alternative to projects: Cornell experience with university-NGO-Government networking
Grassroots organizations and NGOs in rural development: Opportunities with diminishing states and expanding markets
This article undertakes to deal systematically with nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and grassroots organizations (GROs), usually treated as a residual category. Ten levels for development decision making and action are identified in the tradition of central place theory. Three of these are considered ′′local′′ or ′′grassroots′′ because of their collective action possibilities. Then, three sectors are delineated, instead of the usual two. NGOs …
Paraprojects as new modes of international development assistance
How Facts Replace Fads: Social Science and Social Development
Optimum' Participation in Irrigation Management: Issues and Evidence from Sri Lanka
Participation is something to be optimized rather than maximized without regard to benefits or costs. This article examines in theoretical and empirical terms the incentives for water users to take more responsibility for the operation and maintenance of irrigation systems. Extensive survey data from a study covering nearly 500 farmers in the Gal Oya irrigation scheme in Sri Lanka support the proposition that farmers will be more willing to manag…
Integrated rural development: The Ethiopian experience and the debate
Distinguishing Power, Authority & Legitimacy: Taking Max Weber at His Word by Using Resources-Exchange Analysis
Power is a puzzling notion. It seems so useful as a way to talk about politics in ordinary discourse, but when used to analyze politics systematically it quickly becomes entangled in a snarl of concepts, its precise nature and meaning growing less clear in the underbrush of related terms. This article seeks to clear away some of this tangle. Using the framework of resource-exchange analysis, the author explores the concept of power, following Web…
Rural Development: Putting the Last First. Robert Chambers
Local Organizations, Intermediaries and Rural Development
Local Organizations: Intermediaries in Rural Development
Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration
(1985). Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration. Economic Geography: Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 181-183
Participation's place in rural development: Seeking clarity through specificity
Societal Development: Five Approaches with Conclusions from Comparative Analysis
The Political Economy of Development
The Political Economy of Development
Journal Article The Political Economy of Development Get access The Political Economy of Development. Edited by Norman T. Uphoff and Warren F. Ilchman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 506. £6.75.) Paul Streeten Paul Streeten Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 83, Issue 331, 1 September 1973, Pages 963–965, https://doi.org/10.…
Participation's place in rural development: Seeking clarity through specificity
Grassroots organizations and NGOs in rural development: Opportunities with diminishing states and expanding markets
This article undertakes to deal systematically with nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and grassroots organizations (GROs), usually treated as a residual category. Ten levels for development decision making and action are identified in the tradition of central place theory. Three of these are considered ′′local′′ or ′′grassroots′′ because of their collective action possibilities. Then, three sectors are delineated, instead of the usual two. NGOs …
Demonstrated Benefits from Social Capital: The Productivity of Farmer Organizations in Gal Oya, Sri Lanka
Distinguishing Power, Authority & Legitimacy: Taking Max Weber at His Word by Using Resources-Exchange Analysis
Power is a puzzling notion. It seems so useful as a way to talk about politics in ordinary discourse, but when used to analyze politics systematically it quickly becomes entangled in a snarl of concepts, its precise nature and meaning growing less clear in the underbrush of related terms. This article seeks to clear away some of this tangle. Using the framework of resource-exchange analysis, the author explores the concept of power, following Web…
Learning from Gal Oya: Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science
This book recounts the drama of a remarkably successful program that introduced farmer organization for self managed development in the largest and most run-down irrigation system in Sri Lanka. In an unusual combination of description and analysis, Norman Uphoff presents and interprets the Gal Oya experience, drawing far-reaching conclusions for participatory development and contemporary social science. The major portion of the book deals with co…
The Political Economy of Development
Journal Article The Political Economy of Development Get access The Political Economy of Development. Edited by Norman T. Uphoff and Warren F. Ilchman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 506. £6.75.) Paul Streeten Paul Streeten Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 83, Issue 331, 1 September 1973, Pages 963–965, https://doi.org/10.…
Optimum' Participation in Irrigation Management: Issues and Evidence from Sri Lanka
Participation is something to be optimized rather than maximized without regard to benefits or costs. This article examines in theoretical and empirical terms the incentives for water users to take more responsibility for the operation and maintenance of irrigation systems. Extensive survey data from a study covering nearly 500 farmers in the Gal Oya irrigation scheme in Sri Lanka support the proposition that farmers will be more willing to manag…
Learning About and For Participation: From Theoretical and Empirical Studies to Practical Experience, and back to Theory
(1998). Learning About and For Participation: From Theoretical and Empirical Studies to Practical Experience, and back to Theory. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 439-460
Paraprojects as new modes of international development assistance
Systems thinking on intensification and sustainability: Systems boundaries, processes and dimensions
Societal Development: Five Approaches with Conclusions from Comparative Analysis
Reducing the Vulnerability of Rural Households through Agroecological Practice: Considering the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
Le système de riziculture intensive est un système de culture basé sur les principes de l'agroécologie, qui mobilise les potentiels biologiques des sols et des plantes. Il a montré dans de nombreux pays qu'il est possible d'accroître les rendements par une gestion différente des plantes, du sol, de l'eau et des nutriments, tout en diminuant à la fois la dépendance aux intrants chimiques, les coûts de production et le travail requis. Cet article e…
Scientific Politics for Second-Class Statesmen
Ghana’s use of Economic Assistance, 1957–1966: A supradisciplinary analysis of development
Scientific Politics for Second-Class Statesmen
The Political Economy of Development
The Political Economy of Development
Journal Article The Political Economy of Development Get access The Political Economy of Development. Edited by Norman T. Uphoff and Warren F. Ilchman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 506. £6.75.) Paul Streeten Paul Streeten Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 83, Issue 331, 1 September 1973, Pages 963–965, https://doi.org/10.…
Integrating Policy Studies Into Political Science
Societal Development: Five Approaches with Conclusions from Comparative Analysis
Participation's place in rural development: Seeking clarity through specificity
Local Organizations, Intermediaries and Rural Development
Local Organizations: Intermediaries in Rural Development
Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration
(1985). Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration. Economic Geography: Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 181-183
Rural Development: Putting the Last First. Robert Chambers
Integrated rural development: The Ethiopian experience and the debate
Distinguishing Power, Authority & Legitimacy: Taking Max Weber at His Word by Using Resources-Exchange Analysis
Power is a puzzling notion. It seems so useful as a way to talk about politics in ordinary discourse, but when used to analyze politics systematically it quickly becomes entangled in a snarl of concepts, its precise nature and meaning growing less clear in the underbrush of related terms. This article seeks to clear away some of this tangle. Using the framework of resource-exchange analysis, the author explores the concept of power, following Web…
Paraprojects as new modes of international development assistance
How Facts Replace Fads: Social Science and Social Development
Optimum' Participation in Irrigation Management: Issues and Evidence from Sri Lanka
Participation is something to be optimized rather than maximized without regard to benefits or costs. This article examines in theoretical and empirical terms the incentives for water users to take more responsibility for the operation and maintenance of irrigation systems. Extensive survey data from a study covering nearly 500 farmers in the Gal Oya irrigation scheme in Sri Lanka support the proposition that farmers will be more willing to manag…
Grassroots organizations and NGOs in rural development: Opportunities with diminishing states and expanding markets
This article undertakes to deal systematically with nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and grassroots organizations (GROs), usually treated as a residual category. Ten levels for development decision making and action are identified in the tradition of central place theory. Three of these are considered ′′local′′ or ′′grassroots′′ because of their collective action possibilities. Then, three sectors are delineated, instead of the usual two. NGOs …
Learning from Gal Oya - Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science
This first paperback edition recounts the drama of a remarkably successful experiment that introduced farmer organization for self-managed development in the largest and most run-down conflict-ridden irrigation system in Sri Lanka and now updates the story to record the author's picture of Gal Oya in 1996. Norman Uphoff draws far reaching conclusions from the Gal Oya project for participatory development and contemporary social science. He docume…
Collaborations as an alternative to projects: Cornell experience with university-NGO-Government networking
Learning About and For Participation: From Theoretical and Empirical Studies to Practical Experience, and back to Theory
(1998). Learning About and For Participation: From Theoretical and Empirical Studies to Practical Experience, and back to Theory. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 439-460
Agroecological Implications of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Madagascar
Demonstrated Benefits from Social Capital: The Productivity of Farmer Organizations in Gal Oya, Sri Lanka
Agroecological alternatives: Capitalising on existing genetic potentials
Contemporary debates on whether or not transgenic innovations will be beneficial for the poor should consider also whether other methods could achieve the same objectives. This article discusses agroecological approaches, and specifically the system of rice intensification (SRI), which is showing that it can meet food production needs of the poor relatively quickly, simply, cost-effectively and in an environmentally-benign manner. SRI is raising …
Reducing the Vulnerability of Rural Households through Agroecological Practice: Considering the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
Le système de riziculture intensive est un système de culture basé sur les principes de l'agroécologie, qui mobilise les potentiels biologiques des sols et des plantes. Il a montré dans de nombreux pays qu'il est possible d'accroître les rendements par une gestion différente des plantes, du sol, de l'eau et des nutriments, tout en diminuant à la fois la dépendance aux intrants chimiques, les coûts de production et le travail requis. Cet article e…
Common Expositional Problems in Students' Papers and Theses
Words should be chosen and used carefully so that they convey the meaning or meanings that you intend—and do not convey any unintended or double meanings. Writing should leave little ambiguity or uncertainty about what you are referring to—unless some purposeful ambiguity is desired. Sometimes words that are abstract or superficial may be chosen to suit the writer's purpose. For example, there is a long tradition of euphemistic writing. But such …
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