Dr. Peter P. Mollinga

 
 
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Area of Specialization
Irrigation water management, politics of irrigation reform, water and politics, participatory approaches in water management, social study of irrigation technology, institutional analysis.
Department ZEF/A – Department for Political and Cultural Change
Current Research Topics Boundary concepts for interdisciplinary water resources analysis; Depoliticisation in water resources policy;
Multi-stakeholder institutions in water resources management
Further Research Topics History of irrigation engineering in South Asia;
Comparative research on water sector/irrigation reform.
Contacts / Partners / Funding Institutions SaciWATERs (South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies), Hyderabad, India;
Irrigation and Water Engineering group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;
IWMI, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Agriculture and Rural Development/Water Cluster, Washington DC, USA;
Ford Foundation, New Delhi, India; Ministry of Development Cooperation, The Hague The Netherlands;
World Wildlife Fund, Gland, Switzerland; Linköping University, Sweden.
Publications

Mollinga, Peter P. and Alex Bolding (eds.) (2004): The politics of irrigation reform. Contested policy formulation and implementation in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Global Environmental Governance series. Ashgate

Mollinga, Peter P, Gao Hong and Anjali Mohan Bhatia (forthcoming): Leadership and turnover. The contradictions of irrigation management reform in the People's Republic of China. In: Ganesh Shivakoti, Douglas Vermillion, W.F. Lam, Elinor Ostrom, Ujjwal Pradhan and Robert Yoder Asian Irrigation in Transition: Responding to Challenges

Mollinga, P.P. (2003): On the waterfront. Water distribution, technology and agrarian change in a South Indian canal irrigation system Wageningen University Water Resources Series. Orient Longman, Hyderabad (commercial edition Ph.D. thesis)

Mollinga, Peter P. (2001): Water and politics. Levels, rational choice and South Indian canal irrigation. Futures Vol.33 No.8, pp.733-752

Mollinga, P.P. (ed.) (2000): Water for food and rural development. Approaches and initiatives in South Asia. Sage, New Delhi

Bolding, Alex, Kees van Straaten and Peter P. Mollinga (1995) : Modules for modernisation. Colonial irrigation in India and the technological dimension of agrarian change, Journal of Development Studies Vol.31, No.6. pp.805-844

 
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