An institutional case study of Japanese Water Users Association: towards successful participatory irrigation management
An institutional case study of Japanese Water Users Association: towards successful participatory irrigation management
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日本用水者协会的机构案例研究：迈向成功的参与式灌溉管理
DOI：
10.1007/s10333-003-0016-1
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Yohei Sato
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作者：
Yukio Tanaka;Yohei Sato
本文研究了日本用水者协会(WUA)，即土地改良区(LID)内的灌溉管理行为。LID被认为是参与式灌溉管理(PIM)的成功案例，农民之间在水问题上几乎没有冲突，因此获得了较高的社会成本效益。然而，盖子的管理制度仍然模糊不清。我们在假设“公平原则”的存在的前提下，阐明了这一制度。农民以自利的方式运营灌溉设施，并根据灌溉系统的长期经验，有自己的公平规则，如上游优势。我们将这一公平原则定义为两个组成部分：一个是结果公平，另一个是程序公平。最后，我们发现，LID工作人员的做法是满足农民公平和维护和平标准的关键因素；LID工作人员重视农民的习惯规则，在仲裁农民之间的纠纷时注意保持中立，并努力确保组织对农民的透明度。这对未来的PIM项目也是一个很好的教训。
This paper examines irrigation management conduct within the Japanese Water Users Association (WUA), namely the Land Improvement District (LID). LID is regarded as a successful case of participatory irrigation management (PIM), in which there are few conflicts over water between farmers so that it attains high social cost performance. However, the management system of LID still remains obscure. We throw light on this system assuming the existence of "the rule of fairness". Farmers operate the irrigation facilities in a self-serving way and have their own rule of fairness, such as upstream superiority, based on the long-term experiences of irrigation systems. We defined this rule of fairness as made up of two components: one is "fairness of outcome" and the other is "fairness of procedure". Finally, we discovered that the approach of LID staff is the essential factor to satisfying the farmers' criteria of fairness and maintaining peace; LID staff place importance on farmers' customary rules, taking care to remain neutral in arbitrating quarrels between farmers and trying to ensure organizational transparency to farmers. This can be also a good lesson for future PIM projects.