Mapping Social Networks for Performance Evaluation of Irrigation Water Management in Dry Areas

• Published in: Environmental modeling & assessment Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 147 - 158
• Main Authors: Frija, Aymen, Zaatra, Abderraouf, Frija, Iheb, AbdelHafidh, Hassen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.04.2017; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Actors; Actresses; Agriculture; Analysis; Applications of Mathematics; Assessments; Case studies; Collaboration; Decentralization; Density; Developing countries; Drying; Earth and Environmental Science; Environment; International; Irrigation; Irrigation water; LDCs; Literature reviews; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics; Natural resources; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Performance evaluation; Regulation; Social aspects; Social behavior; Social interaction; Social networks; Studies; Subsidies; Water consumption; Water governance; Water management; Water resources; Water saving; Water users; Wilderness areas; Tunisia; MED, Tunisia; Network cohesiveness; Actors embeddedness; Irrigation; Governance; Stakeholders; Tunisia

Collaboration between actors is an important determinant of water governance, particularly in developing countries suffering from lack of institutional and organizational performances for water management. The objective of this paper is to use the social network (SN) concept in bringing depth to the...