Drip irrigation as a socio-technical configuration: policy design and technological choice in Western India
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Karan Misquitta; Trevor Birkenholtz
- Source
- Water International. 46:112-129
- Subject
- Participatory methods
Sociotechnical system
Natural resource economics
0208 environmental biotechnology
Subsidy
02 engineering and technology
Drip irrigation
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
01 natural sciences
020801 environmental engineering
Water scarcity
Technological choice
Business
Policy design
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Water Science and Technology
- Language
- ISSN
- 1941-1707
0250-8060
Through a case study of farmers in India we examine the relationship between drip irrigation subsidy policies, farmer adoption and technological choice. We examine changes in the subsidy design and...