Hybridizing the commons. Privatizing and outsourcing collective irrigation management after technological change in Spain

• Published in: World development Vol. 132; p. 104983
• Main Authors: García-Mollá, Marta, Ortega-Reig, Mar, Boelens, Rutgerd, Sanchis-Ibor, Carles
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.08.2020; Pergamon Press Inc
• Subjects: Common-pool resources management; Companies; Company structure; Conflict; Control stability; Control systems; Coproduction; External pressure; Human capital; Hybrids; Intrusion; Irrigation; Irrigation systems; Irrigation water; Modernization; Outsourcing; Penetration; Political institutions; Private enterprise; Private sector; Privatization; Quality; Resource management; Robustness; Technological change; Water consumption; Water control; Water management; Water resources management; Spain; Irrigation; Coproduction; Outsourcing; Privatization; Technological change; Common-pool resources management

•Technological change facilitates private company penetration into irrigation commons.•Users’ control draws the conceptual borderline between outsourcing and privatization.•Users’ capacity to guide the collective-private coproduction is crucial.•Human capital and awareness of collective values are d...