Institutional Options for Sustainable Irrigation: Evidence from Bulgaria, Ivan PENOV (2003)

Type of Report :

Conference paper, presented at "The Commons in Transition: Property on Natural Resources in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union," a Regional Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Prague, April 11-13.

Title :

Institutional Options for Sustainable Irrigation: Evidence from Bulgaria

Author :

Ivan PENOV

Year Published :

2003

URL :

http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00001062/

Description :

Water usage in Bulgaria declined with nearly 85% during the period of transition. In addition, large parts of the existing canal systems were abandoned. Three groups of institutional options are investigated in the paper: (i) improvement of the local level co-ordination; (ii) limiting the market imperfections, and (iii) strengthening the external conflict resolution and sanctioning mechanisms. The investigation of above case led to conclusions that can be generalised for the case of Conflict Prevention and Recovery (CPR) management during the period of transition.