François Molle
Biographic Data
| ID | 683202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | François Molle |
| GIVEN NAMES | François |
| FAMILY NAME | Molle |
| SIGNATURE | MOLLE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5748-8770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Radical reassemblages: The life history of a Nile Delta pumping collective
This article investigates how people, technology, and water flows act together in using and transforming infrastructure to improve water access. Analytically, we propose to study collective action over time through the relationships between humans and non-humans as they collaborate to mediate water and other flows. Our case-study lies in Egypt. Over four decades, the Irrigation Improvement Project has introduced various sociotechnical and institu…
Chronicle of a disaster foretold: The politics of restoring Lake Urmia (Iran)
Like many of the world’s large-scale terminal lakes, the Urmia saltwater lake in northwestern Iran is undergoing a process of desiccation. The anticipated economic, social, environmental and health consequences of this are daunting. We set out to examine the policies that have been designed in response to the lake crisis in the past twenty years. We focus on the set of measures proposed by the Urmia Lake Restoration Program (ULRP) and explain why…
Les angles morts de la politique de l’eau au Maroc
Le Maroc est souvent érigé en exemple international pour sa gestion des ressources en eau. Après une période d’investissement dans les barrages et les périmètres irrigués publics, c’est l’intensification de l’agriculture et le recours aux eaux souterraines qui ont pris les devants. Mais le pays reste soumis à des pénuries d’eau inquiétantes, qui ont pris une tournure particulièrement sévère ces dernières années. Cet article se penche sur quatre c…
Intensification of Rice Cultivation in the Floodplain of the Chao Phraya Delta
Over the past 50 years rice cultivation in Asian deltas has undergone impressive intensification. In the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand, traditional deepwater and floating rice varieties have gradually been replaced by high-yield varieties (HYVs). However, until recently a floodplain of 300,000 ha was still cultivated with traditional varieties. We analyze how these varieties came to be replaced by single/double cropping of HYVs and describe the new…
A bridge over troubled waters
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public
Reducing water withdrawals: The negotiation and implementation of environmental policy in the Durance River Basin, France
Many parts of Europe are facing an increased risk of water scarcity and a potentially disastrous impact on freshwater ecosystems. In line with the Water Framework Directive and the 2006 Water Act, France developed the Sustainable Withdrawals Reform (SWR) in 2008, which aimed to restore a balance between the available water resources and people's needs across the country by 2017. While the literature has generally focused on the economics of e-flo…
The paradox of irrigation efficiency
Higher efficiency rarely reduces water consumption
River Basin Management and Development
River basins are geographical units in which all streams drain to a common terminus, but as a political boundary it is also the result of a choice and social construction. The concept has, from the nineteenth century onward, chiefly been mobilized for justifying and rationalizing the large‐scale development of water resources by powerful water bureaucracies imbued with their “hydraulic mission.” Excessive development resulting in basin closure an…
The politics of accessing desert land in Jordan
Réappropriations de l'eau dans les bassins versants surexploités: Le cas du bassin du Tensift (Maroc)
Les bassins versants surexploités sont, par définition, le lieu de conflits qui portent sur la ressource hydrique. Les multiples usages pepétués au cours du temps s'y superposent et font apparaître une gouvernance complexe. On s'intéresse ici au bassin du Tensift, qui comprend Marrakech et la plaine avoisinante du Haouz, et où le développement du tourisme, de l'agriculture et des villes est particulièrement consommateur d'eau. Ces secteurs se tro…
Appropriations et conflits autour des régimes d'accès aux ressources renouvelables: Introduction
Les modes d’accès aux ressources naturelles, qui prennent forme dans la globalisation des normes et des droits, se caractérisent par une diversité de modèles et de pratiques. Les stratégies d’appropriation contemporaines semblent s’adapter, de manière labile, aussi bien aux tendances de marchandisation de la nature qu’à leur pendant conservationniste [Dahou et Ould Cheikh 2007 ; Chouquer 2011]. Ce constat est d’autant plus vrai pour les ressource…
Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods and Governance
Environnement, discours et pouvoir
Justice et injustices environnementales
Les crises écologiques, les politiques pour les contrer, la croissance des inégalités résultant de la mondialisation et des politiques libérales ont revitalisé la notion de justice environnementale. Cette notion veut comprendre les interrelations entre les inégalités sociales et l'environnement : quel environnement, où, et pour qui ? Des chercheurs se sont emparé de ce concept d'origine nord-américaine, alors peu connu dans le champ académique fr…
Pouvoirs, sociétés et nature au sud de la Méditerranée
Scalar Disconnect: The Logic of Transboundary Water Governance in the Mekong
This article provides an institutional analysis of the Mekong River Commission and brings to light the institutional dissonances between regional and national decision-making landscapes in the Lower Mekong Basin. The current scalar disconnect between regional and national decision-making processes reflects how international donors and member country representatives obscure potential conflict/tension in transboundary water governance in the Mekong…
Scale, governance and the management of river basins: A case study from Central Iran
Beyond water, beyond boundaries: Spaces of water management in the Krishna river basin, South India
As demand and competition for water resources increase, the river basin has become the primary unit for water management and planning. While appealing in principle, practical implementation of river basin management and allocation has often been problematic. This paper examines the case of the Krishna basin in South India. It highlights that conflicts over basin water are embedded in a broad reality of planning and development where multiple scal…
Squeezed dry: The historical trajectory of the lower Jordan River basin
River basins
River-basin planning and management: The social life of a concept
“Water for Food, Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture” David Molden (Ed.)
Le deuxime Forum mondial de l'eau, qui s'tait tenu La Haye en 2002, avait mis en vidence la fois les impacts environnementaux occasionns par l'agriculture et l'incomprhension qui sparait les communauts professionnelles du dveloppement de celles oeuvrant pour la prservation de l'environnement
Megaprojects and Social and Environmental Changes: The Case of the Thai “Water Grid”
Large-scale development of irrigation has long been an attractive option of postwar development, and the Mekong region has been no exception. Thailand has developed approximately four million hectares of irrigated land, and its northeastern region (Isaan)--both the driest and poorest part of the country--has been the target of many water projects. However, "full development" of its potential has been constrained by the lack of storage sites and t…
Scales and power in river basin management: The Chao Phraya River in Thailand1
Interventions on hydro/ecological systems by different categories of stakeholders characterised by different political, decision-making and discursive power, and varied access to resources, tend to generate costs, benefits and risks that are distributed unevenly across spatial and temporal scales and across social groups. This is due to the interconnectedness of users through the hydrologic cycle entailed by their dependence upon the same resourc…
Social and Economic Patterns of Landlord–Tenant Relationships in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand: An Historical Perspective
For a long time, the Central Plain of Thailand has been integrated within the market economy; the resulting tenancy has often been attributed to growing social differentiation. Landowner–tenant relations constitute a focal point that mirrors economic, social and political issues. This paper focuses on these relationships and their evolution during the twentieth century. The overall picture is more balanced than commonly assumed, especially for th…
Le système agraire du delta du Chao Phraya: Transformations Et Impact De La Crise De 1997
Molle François, Srijantr Thippawal. Le système agraire du delta du Chao Phraya : transformations et impact de la crise de 1997. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 41, n°162, 2000. Mutations de l'agriculture en Asie du Sud-Est, sous la direction de Marc Dufumier. pp. 343-363
River-basin planning and management: The social life of a concept
Scales and power in river basin management: The Chao Phraya River in Thailand1
Interventions on hydro/ecological systems by different categories of stakeholders characterised by different political, decision-making and discursive power, and varied access to resources, tend to generate costs, benefits and risks that are distributed unevenly across spatial and temporal scales and across social groups. This is due to the interconnectedness of users through the hydrologic cycle entailed by their dependence upon the same resourc…
Scalar Disconnect: The Logic of Transboundary Water Governance in the Mekong
This article provides an institutional analysis of the Mekong River Commission and brings to light the institutional dissonances between regional and national decision-making landscapes in the Lower Mekong Basin. The current scalar disconnect between regional and national decision-making processes reflects how international donors and member country representatives obscure potential conflict/tension in transboundary water governance in the Mekong…
Beyond water, beyond boundaries: Spaces of water management in the Krishna river basin, South India
As demand and competition for water resources increase, the river basin has become the primary unit for water management and planning. While appealing in principle, practical implementation of river basin management and allocation has often been problematic. This paper examines the case of the Krishna basin in South India. It highlights that conflicts over basin water are embedded in a broad reality of planning and development where multiple scal…
Scale, governance and the management of river basins: A case study from Central Iran
A bridge over troubled waters
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public
Megaprojects and Social and Environmental Changes: The Case of the Thai “Water Grid”
Large-scale development of irrigation has long been an attractive option of postwar development, and the Mekong region has been no exception. Thailand has developed approximately four million hectares of irrigated land, and its northeastern region (Isaan)--both the driest and poorest part of the country--has been the target of many water projects. However, "full development" of its potential has been constrained by the lack of storage sites and t…
The politics of accessing desert land in Jordan
Réappropriations de l'eau dans les bassins versants surexploités: Le cas du bassin du Tensift (Maroc)
Les bassins versants surexploités sont, par définition, le lieu de conflits qui portent sur la ressource hydrique. Les multiples usages pepétués au cours du temps s'y superposent et font apparaître une gouvernance complexe. On s'intéresse ici au bassin du Tensift, qui comprend Marrakech et la plaine avoisinante du Haouz, et où le développement du tourisme, de l'agriculture et des villes est particulièrement consommateur d'eau. Ces secteurs se tro…
Appropriations et conflits autour des régimes d'accès aux ressources renouvelables: Introduction
Les modes d’accès aux ressources naturelles, qui prennent forme dans la globalisation des normes et des droits, se caractérisent par une diversité de modèles et de pratiques. Les stratégies d’appropriation contemporaines semblent s’adapter, de manière labile, aussi bien aux tendances de marchandisation de la nature qu’à leur pendant conservationniste [Dahou et Ould Cheikh 2007 ; Chouquer 2011]. Ce constat est d’autant plus vrai pour les ressource…
Water Management and Agricultural Change: A Case Study in the Upper Chao Phraya Delta
Landform and water regimes in deltaic areas are rather varied, as typified in
Le système agraire du delta du Chao Phraya: Transformations Et Impact De La Crise De 1997
Molle François, Srijantr Thippawal. Le système agraire du delta du Chao Phraya : transformations et impact de la crise de 1997. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 41, n°162, 2000. Mutations de l'agriculture en Asie du Sud-Est, sous la direction de Marc Dufumier. pp. 343-363
Social and Economic Patterns of Landlord–Tenant Relationships in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand: An Historical Perspective
For a long time, the Central Plain of Thailand has been integrated within the market economy; the resulting tenancy has often been attributed to growing social differentiation. Landowner–tenant relations constitute a focal point that mirrors economic, social and political issues. This paper focuses on these relationships and their evolution during the twentieth century. The overall picture is more balanced than commonly assumed, especially for th…
Scales and power in river basin management: The Chao Phraya River in Thailand1
Interventions on hydro/ecological systems by different categories of stakeholders characterised by different political, decision-making and discursive power, and varied access to resources, tend to generate costs, benefits and risks that are distributed unevenly across spatial and temporal scales and across social groups. This is due to the interconnectedness of users through the hydrologic cycle entailed by their dependence upon the same resourc…
“Water for Food, Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture” David Molden (Ed.)
Le deuxime Forum mondial de l'eau, qui s'tait tenu La Haye en 2002, avait mis en vidence la fois les impacts environnementaux occasionns par l'agriculture et l'incomprhension qui sparait les communauts professionnelles du dveloppement de celles oeuvrant pour la prservation de l'environnement
Megaprojects and Social and Environmental Changes: The Case of the Thai “Water Grid”
Large-scale development of irrigation has long been an attractive option of postwar development, and the Mekong region has been no exception. Thailand has developed approximately four million hectares of irrigated land, and its northeastern region (Isaan)--both the driest and poorest part of the country--has been the target of many water projects. However, "full development" of its potential has been constrained by the lack of storage sites and t…
Squeezed dry: The historical trajectory of the lower Jordan River basin
River basins
River-basin planning and management: The social life of a concept
Pouvoirs, sociétés et nature au sud de la Méditerranée
Scalar Disconnect: The Logic of Transboundary Water Governance in the Mekong
This article provides an institutional analysis of the Mekong River Commission and brings to light the institutional dissonances between regional and national decision-making landscapes in the Lower Mekong Basin. The current scalar disconnect between regional and national decision-making processes reflects how international donors and member country representatives obscure potential conflict/tension in transboundary water governance in the Mekong…
Scale, governance and the management of river basins: A case study from Central Iran
Beyond water, beyond boundaries: Spaces of water management in the Krishna river basin, South India
As demand and competition for water resources increase, the river basin has become the primary unit for water management and planning. While appealing in principle, practical implementation of river basin management and allocation has often been problematic. This paper examines the case of the Krishna basin in South India. It highlights that conflicts over basin water are embedded in a broad reality of planning and development where multiple scal…
Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods and Governance
Environnement, discours et pouvoir
Justice et injustices environnementales
Les crises écologiques, les politiques pour les contrer, la croissance des inégalités résultant de la mondialisation et des politiques libérales ont revitalisé la notion de justice environnementale. Cette notion veut comprendre les interrelations entre les inégalités sociales et l'environnement : quel environnement, où, et pour qui ? Des chercheurs se sont emparé de ce concept d'origine nord-américaine, alors peu connu dans le champ académique fr…
Réappropriations de l'eau dans les bassins versants surexploités: Le cas du bassin du Tensift (Maroc)
Les bassins versants surexploités sont, par définition, le lieu de conflits qui portent sur la ressource hydrique. Les multiples usages pepétués au cours du temps s'y superposent et font apparaître une gouvernance complexe. On s'intéresse ici au bassin du Tensift, qui comprend Marrakech et la plaine avoisinante du Haouz, et où le développement du tourisme, de l'agriculture et des villes est particulièrement consommateur d'eau. Ces secteurs se tro…
Appropriations et conflits autour des régimes d'accès aux ressources renouvelables: Introduction
Les modes d’accès aux ressources naturelles, qui prennent forme dans la globalisation des normes et des droits, se caractérisent par une diversité de modèles et de pratiques. Les stratégies d’appropriation contemporaines semblent s’adapter, de manière labile, aussi bien aux tendances de marchandisation de la nature qu’à leur pendant conservationniste [Dahou et Ould Cheikh 2007 ; Chouquer 2011]. Ce constat est d’autant plus vrai pour les ressource…
The politics of accessing desert land in Jordan
River Basin Management and Development
River basins are geographical units in which all streams drain to a common terminus, but as a political boundary it is also the result of a choice and social construction. The concept has, from the nineteenth century onward, chiefly been mobilized for justifying and rationalizing the large‐scale development of water resources by powerful water bureaucracies imbued with their “hydraulic mission.” Excessive development resulting in basin closure an…
The paradox of irrigation efficiency
Higher efficiency rarely reduces water consumption
Reducing water withdrawals: The negotiation and implementation of environmental policy in the Durance River Basin, France
Many parts of Europe are facing an increased risk of water scarcity and a potentially disastrous impact on freshwater ecosystems. In line with the Water Framework Directive and the 2006 Water Act, France developed the Sustainable Withdrawals Reform (SWR) in 2008, which aimed to restore a balance between the available water resources and people's needs across the country by 2017. While the literature has generally focused on the economics of e-flo…
Intensification of Rice Cultivation in the Floodplain of the Chao Phraya Delta
Over the past 50 years rice cultivation in Asian deltas has undergone impressive intensification. In the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand, traditional deepwater and floating rice varieties have gradually been replaced by high-yield varieties (HYVs). However, until recently a floodplain of 300,000 ha was still cultivated with traditional varieties. We analyze how these varieties came to be replaced by single/double cropping of HYVs and describe the new…
A bridge over troubled waters
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public
Les angles morts de la politique de l’eau au Maroc
Le Maroc est souvent érigé en exemple international pour sa gestion des ressources en eau. Après une période d’investissement dans les barrages et les périmètres irrigués publics, c’est l’intensification de l’agriculture et le recours aux eaux souterraines qui ont pris les devants. Mais le pays reste soumis à des pénuries d’eau inquiétantes, qui ont pris une tournure particulièrement sévère ces dernières années. Cet article se penche sur quatre c…
Chronicle of a disaster foretold: The politics of restoring Lake Urmia (Iran)
Like many of the world’s large-scale terminal lakes, the Urmia saltwater lake in northwestern Iran is undergoing a process of desiccation. The anticipated economic, social, environmental and health consequences of this are daunting. We set out to examine the policies that have been designed in response to the lake crisis in the past twenty years. We focus on the set of measures proposed by the Urmia Lake Restoration Program (ULRP) and explain why…
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