Dynamics of Institutions in Water Resource Management

Workshop January 9-11, 2008

Location: Hatton Hall, 34 E. 7th St. Building B, Tempe, Arizona

Wednesday January 9

Reception

Thursday January 10

8.00-9.00: Introduction (chair: Marco Janssen)

9.00-11.00 River Basins (chair: Marco Janssen)

Jerry B. Howard (Arizona Museum of Natural History) and David Abbott (Arizona State University) - Chronological change in Hohokam irrigation management in the prehistoric Phoenix basin [slides]

Claudia Pahl-Wostl (University of Osnabrück) - The role of social learning in adaptive water management [slides]

Maja Schlüter (Princeton University and Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) - Recent institutional change in water management in the lower Amudarya river basin [slides]

11.20-12.40 Urban Water (chair: Lin Ostrom)

Amber Wutich (Arizona State University) - Severe water insecurity and the robustness of institutional rules: Evidence from a squatter settlement in Cochabamba, Bolivia [slides]

Abigail York (Arizona State University) - Coupled land and water institutions in the Phoenix region [slides]

1.30-3.30 Western United States (chair: Abigail York)

William Blomquist (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) - Events, trends, and processes challenging the robustness of water management institutions in the Western United States [slides]

Brian Steed (Indiana University) - Response to Ecological and Human Threats in Southern California Water Basin Governance - A proposed course of research [slides]

Edella Schlager (University of Arizona) - Examining institutional change among nested water arrangements: Western U.S. Interstate River compacts from 1930 to 2005 [slides]

4.00-6.00 Conceptual Issues (chair: Marco Janssen)

Michael Cox (Indiana University) - Water management from a complex systems perspective [slides]

Robert Holahan (Indiana University) - Investigating majority rule in the common pool [slides]

Newton Bueno (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil) - Institutions and natural resources sustainability in poor socio-ecological systems: Closing some dynamical loops [slides]

Friday, January 11

8.00-10.00 South Africa (chair: Marty Anderies)

Sharon Pollard (AWARD) - Seeing the linkages: The importance of a systems view in understanding the dynamics of community-based and statutory water resources governance within the Sand River Catchment, Bushbuckridge, South Africa [slides]

Harry Biggs (South African National Parks) - Scenarios to help preparedness for possible freshwater governance futures in Bushbuckridge [slides]

Kevin Rogers (University of Witwatersrand) - Governances of the Sand River Social-Ecological System: A panarchy of organizational levels, scales and adaptive phases [slides]

10.30-12.00 Robustness (chair: Elinor Ostrom)

Rimjhim Aggarwal (Arizona State University) and Marty Anderies (Arizona State University) - Theory and experience with decentralization in irrigation systems: Insights for design of robust institutions [slides]

Oguzhan Cifdaloz (Arizona State University) and Ashok Regmi (Arizona State University) - Formalizing institutional and water resource dynamics in a robust control framework: Challenges and opportunities [slides]

1.00-3.00 Asia (chair: Amber Wutich)

Eduardo Araral Jr. (Singapore University) - "Where have all the water gone?" Institutions, incentives and behavior over time [slides]

Ruth Meinzen-Dick (International Food Policy Research Institute) - Sananeri revised: Dynamics of tank irrigation management in India [slides]

Ruth Yabes (Arizona State University) - Institutional change from shocks to an indigenous irrigation system in the Philippines: the impact of participatory planning on Zanjera Danum [slides]

3.30-5.00 General Discussion (chair: Marco Janssen)

List of participants