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Research in Two Case Studies: Irrigation
and Land Use in the Fergana Valley and Water
Management in the Lower Jordan Valley ............................................. 89
Christine Bismuth , Sebastian Hoechstetter , and Oliver Bens
Part III The Fergana Valley – Uzbekistan’s Hydro-Agricultural
System Between Inertia and Change
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Between Multiple Transformations
and Systemic Path Dependencies ........................................................... 101
Timothy Moss and Petra Dobner
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From Upscaling to Rescaling: Transforming the Fergana
Basin from Tsarist Irrigation to Water Management
for an Independent Uzbekistan .............................................................. 113
Hermann Kreutzmann
10 Irrigation Infrastructure in Fergana Today:
Ecological Implications – Economic Necessities .................................. 129
Shavkat Kenjabaev and Hans-Georg Frede
11 Where Water Meets Agriculture: The Ambivalent
Role of Water Users Associations .......................................................... 149
Timothy Moss and Ahmad Hamidov
12 Theory, the Market and the State: Agricultural
Reforms in Post Socialist Uzbekistan Between
Economic Incentives and Institutional Obstacles ................................ 169
Bernd Hansjürgens
Part IV The Lower Jordan Valley – The Red Sea-Dead Sea
Conveyance Project and Its Complex History
13 Water Resources, Cooperation and Power
Asymmetries in the Water Management of the Lower
Jordan Valley: The Situation Today and the Path
that Has Led There ................................................................................. 189
Christine Bismuth
14 Reclaiming the Dead Sea: Alternatives for Action ............................... 205
Abdallah I. Husein Malkawi and Yacov Tsur
15 Jordan’s Shadow State and Water Management:
Prospects for Water Security Will Depend on Politics
and Regional Cooperation ...................................................................... 227
Valerie Yorke
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