As attention increasingly turns to the sustainability of rural water supplies-and not simply
overall levels of coverage or access-water point functionality has become a core concern for …

Institutional arrangements shape water-related decision making and water policies, and
drive behaviours related to water sharing and use. It is therefore crucial that water …

This special issue furthers the study of natural resource management from a critical
institutional perspective. Critical institutionalism (CI) is a contemporary body of thought that …

Why, despite an emphasis on'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so
infrequently deliver as planned? Why do many institutions designed for natural resource …

Adaptive governance continues to attract considerable interest in academic and policy
circles. This is with good reason, given its increasing relevance in a globalized and …

In recent years,'critical institutionalism'has emerged as a school of thought in its own right.
Among its strengths is a focus on institutions as both complex and embedded, where …

This paper presents the analysis of historical transformation of water management in Central
Asia with the specific focus on Uzbekistan. The time frame of the analysis is from the Middle …

Despite cogent critiques and limited successes, community-based management (CBM)
remains central to policies for natural resource management and service delivery. Various …

Communal irrigation or user-managed irrigation–also long referred to as indigenous or
traditional irrigation–has been the focus of interest for two main complementary reasons: 1) …

Purpose This paper investigates how various emergent theoretical perspectives in
entrepreneurship research, representing diverse decision-making logics, influence firm …