Wireless sensor networks for agriculture: The state-of-the-art in practice and future challenges

T Ojha, S Misra, NS Raghuwanshi - Computers and electronics in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The advent of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) spurred a new direction of
research in agricultural and farming domain. In recent times, WSNs are widely applied in …

Intermittent water supply systems: causal factors, problems and solution options

K Simukonda, R Farmani, D Butler - Urban Water Journal, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Intermittent water supply systems are characterised by schedules that subject water
consumers to less than 24 hours a day or less than 7 days of water supply a week. Causes …

Neoliberalizing nature? Market environmentalism in water supply in England and Wales

K Bakker - Annals of the association of American Geographers, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
The 1989 privatization of the water supply sector in England and Wales is a much-cited
model of market environmentalism—the introduction of market institutions to natural …

[PDF][PDF] Nirvana concepts, narratives and policy models: Insights from the water sector

F Molle - Water alternatives, 2008 - water-alternatives.org
Analysis of water policy shows the importance of cognitive and ideological dimensions in the
formulation of policy discourses. Ideas are never neutral and reflect the particular societal …

[KNIHA][B] The institutional economics of water: a cross-country analysis of institutions and performance

RM Saleth, A Dinar - 2004 - books.google.com
We are both impressed by the book. It merits prominent publication as a far-reaching
application of innovative methodologies to an important, and well explained, worldwide …

Productivity growth in world agriculture: sources and constraints

VW Ruttan - Journal of Economic perspectives, 2002 - aeaweb.org
During the last half-century, advances in crop production came from expansion in areas
irrigated from more intensive application of fertilizers and crop protection chemicals, and …

Governance failure: rethinking the institutional dimensions of urban water supply to poor households

K Bakker, M Kooy, NE Shofiani, EJ Martijn - World Development, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper applies a conceptual framework of “governance failure” to an analysis of the
institutional dimensions of urban water supply provision to poor households, focusing on the …

The Water Framework Directive: a new directive for a changing social, political and economic European framework

M Kaika - European planning studies, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the intricate process of develo** the European Union's Water
Framework Directive. It sees the Directive as a response to recent economic, political and …

Water institutional reforms: theory and practice

RM Saleth, A Dinar - Water Policy, 2005 - iwaponline.com
This paper aims to set the stage with an outline of the conceptual, analytical and theoretical
aspects of water institutional reforms and a synthesis of the main findings from the reform …

[HTML][HTML] Adapting to climate change by water management organisations: Enablers and barriers

A Azhoni, S Jude, I Holman - Journal of hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
Climate change will be particularly experienced though the medium of water. Water
organisations, that are managing societal and ecological needs for water, are therefore …