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This article examines the effect of water pricing policies on farmers' water saving behaviors, using original water user group (WUG) data from a reservoir irrigation system in China. The introduction of volumetric water pricing at the group level, to replace area-based pricing, induces institutional change to prevent each member's overuse of water when the volumetric price levels are moderate. Depending on the initial conditions, the multiple pathways of change lead to new institutional arrangements, with all of them contributing to water savings. However, when the price is set high enough, many farmers exit a WUG for private irrigation. This tendency is associated with an increased probability that the remaining members do not undertake institutional change and that they do not end up saving water. This may be due to the increased management difficulties among the remaining members whose fields are separated by former members who have now opted out for private irrigation across the WUG. As a result, we do not find evidence that the reservoir water is saved at high volumetric price levels.

Collective action --- Common pool resource management --- Institutional change --- Irrigation --- Social capital --- Town water supply and sanitation --- Water & industry --- Water conservation --- Water price --- Water resources --- Water supply & systems --- Water supply and sanitation --- Water supply and sanitation governance and institutions

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This Special Issue contributes to the debate on land grabbing as commons grabbing with a special focus on how the development of state institutions (formal laws and regulations for agrarian development and compensations) and voluntary corporate social responsibility (CRS) initiatives have enabled the grabbing process. It also looks at how these institutions and CSR programs are used as development strategies of states and companies to legitimate their investments. This Special Issue includes case studies from Kenya, Morocco, Tanzania, Cambodia, Bolivia and Ecuador analysing how these strategies are embedded into neo-liberal ideologies of economic development. We propose looking at James Ferguson’s notion of the Anti-Politics Machine (1990) that served to uncover the hidden political basis of state-driven development strategies. We think it is of interest to test the approach for analysing development discourses and CSR-policies in agrarian investments. We argue based on a New Institutional Political Ecology (NIPE) approach that these legitimize the institutional change from common to state and private property of land and land related common pool resources which is the basis of commons grabbing that also grabbed the capacity for resilience of local people.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- pastoral resilience --- co-management concept --- decentralization --- holistic management --- water-shed management plan --- commercialization of herding --- Common Pool Resources (CPRs) --- qualitative --- agro-industrial food system --- actors --- formal and informal rules and regulations --- export horticulture --- common pool resources --- land --- water --- Laikipia County --- land grabbing --- resilience --- commons --- land concessions --- communal land titling --- Southeast Asia --- forest land governance --- Mau Forest --- Ogiek --- institutions --- Community Land Act and customary law --- large-scale land acquisitions --- green energy --- corporate social responsibility --- food systems --- agroecosystems and agroecosystem service --- resilience and commons grabbing --- gender --- sustainable energy --- development policy --- common-pool resources --- common property --- land tenure transformations --- resilience, social anthropology --- conservationism --- identity --- commons grabbing --- protected areas --- institution shopping --- institutional change --- Ecuador --- large scale land acquisitions --- social anthropology --- n/a

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From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be--snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored. The benefits to oneself of a free ride on the efforts of others mean that collective goals often are not met. But compared to most other species, people actually cooperate a great deal. Why is this? Meeting at Grand Central brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation. Meeting at Grand Central will inspire researchers from different disciplines and intellectual traditions to share ideas and advance our understanding of cooperative behavior in a world that is more complex than ever before.

Social interaction --- Cooperation --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- History. --- History --- Adaptation and Natural Selection. --- George C. Williams. --- Mancur Olson. --- The Logic of Collective Action. --- Theory of Mind. --- adaptation. --- anti-coordination games. --- assurance games. --- by-product mutualism. --- by-product theory. --- cheaters. --- coalitional psychology. --- coercion. --- collective action dilemmas. --- collective action. --- common knowledge. --- common-pool resources. --- conflict. --- consilience. --- conventions. --- cooperation. --- cooperative behavior. --- coordination problems. --- coordination. --- criticality. --- cultural group selection. --- culture. --- emergence. --- evolution. --- evolutionary biology. --- fortuitous benefits. --- free riding. --- generosity. --- groups. --- incentives. --- indirect reciprocity. --- institutions. --- judgment. --- labor division. --- language. --- life sciences. --- mathematics. --- mentalizing. --- natural selection. --- norms. --- organizations. --- phylogeny. --- power law curves. --- public goods. --- reciprocity. --- selective benefits. --- small groups. --- social behavior. --- social interactions. --- social sciences. --- trust.

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During the third decade of the 21st century, human societies across the world are facing significant water-related problems, such as ecosystem degradation, groundwater depletion, natural and anthropogenic droughts and floods, water-borne health issues, and deforestation. These problems are exacerbated by climate change, a phenomenon that has been accelerated due to human intervention in natural systems since the industrial revolution. There is an urgent need to better understand the interaction of hydrological systems in terms of climate variability and the anthropogenic factors that contribute to the dynamics and resilience of coupled human–water systems and effective risk management in the area of water resource management. Socio-hydrology is an interdisciplinary field that integrates natural and social sciences and aims to study the long-term dynamics of bidirectional feedback in coupled human–water systems. This book on socio-hydrology aims to compile cross-disciplinary scientific endeavors and innovations in research on the development, education, and application of coupled human–water systems. The articles published in this book represent diverse and broad aspects of water management in the context of socio-hydrology systems around the globe. The articles and ideas presented in this book represent a significant source of references for interdisciplinary water science programs and provide an excellent guide for experts involved in the future planning and management of water resources. This book is dedicated to friends of the Green Water-Infrastructure Academy and those who pursue cross-disciplinary water research, education, and management.

Research & information: general --- digital elevation model --- maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) classification --- runoff quality --- social, economic and environmental (SEE) factor --- Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) --- urbanization --- vegetation density --- stormwater management --- social factors --- green stormwater infrastructure --- society --- risk analysis --- water-related crises --- resilience --- security --- floods --- drinking water --- crisis planning --- landslides --- logistic regression --- slope gradient --- land use --- soil --- Coonoor --- behavior --- trust --- risk --- tap water --- salience --- common pool resources --- integrated water management --- water governance --- water resilience --- socio-hydrology --- irrigation efficiency --- surface water-groundwater interactions --- sustainability --- knowledge coproduction --- integrated local environmental knowledge --- education and training --- community-based water development --- Black Sea --- coastal tourism --- regional climate change --- warming --- wind --- waves --- sea level rise --- upwelling --- heavy rain --- river plume --- algal bloom --- introduced species --- n/a

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Conflicts in forest management are unavoidable because of the large temporal and spatial scales characteristic of forests ecosystems and the large number of actors involved. Forests are multifunctional ecosystems par excellence, and it can be hypothesized that current public policies, and especially those labeled as societal transitions, can affect this widespread holistic management goal. In this Special Issue, the different contributions by the authors raise the questions of how different types of conflicts arise and what alternatives exist to solve those conflicts. The Issue contains examples from both temperate and tropical forests and addresses, for instance, conflicts arising from REDD+ programs, the declaration of new protected areas, the complexity of negotiating carbon offset targets, the loss of local knowledge because of demographic trends, and meeting biodiversity and biomass targets simultaneously, among others. We present a general typology of sources of conflicts because of two dimensions: a vertical dimension represented by bottom-up versus top-down approaches and a horizontal dimension arising by ecosystem extent and ownership boundaries. Awareness that new policies can be a source of unexpected conflicts calls for precaution while testing new ‘transition’ approaches.

forest planning and management --- rural community sustainability --- ecosystem services --- forest sociology --- forestry in the media --- forest vulnerability --- adaptive capacity --- multiple-use land management --- conflicting perspectives --- natural processes --- high-yield silviculture --- forest management --- multifunctionality --- carbon offset --- collective action --- conflict avoidance --- mitigation --- payment for ecosystem services --- social-ecological --- France --- protected areas establishment --- stakeholder participation --- landscape protection --- qualitative research --- Soutok Protected Landscape Area (Czech Republic) --- REDD+ --- conflict --- forests --- land tenure --- political ecology --- ecological unit --- synergy/trade-off --- spatial structure --- attribute characteristics --- forest sustainability --- production forests --- environment forests --- carbon credit --- retention approach --- common-pool resource management --- local vs. global --- economic oligopoly --- panacea paradigm --- renewable energy --- sectoral organization --- CHANS --- globalization --- historical data --- socio-ecological frameworks --- dry-edge --- n/a --- Research. --- Forestry.