The falaj – a traditional co-operative system of water management

Sutton, Sally

doi:10.3362/0262-8104.1984.005

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“…Again Sutton's study provides a useful illustration. It is argued that, despite over a thousand years of experience with it and centuries of devising social structures for its maintenance and management, user communities can neither fully understand nor copy the falaj technology (Sutton, 1984). Here the community must keep alive, through intergenerational transmission within a select group, interactions with Persian governance in the very distant past.…”

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Capturing Critical Institutionalism: A Synthesis of Key Themes and Debates

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The article aims to provide a synthesis of key discussions within scholarship that is critical of Mainstream Institutionalism. It adopts a thematic approach to chart debate and areas of convergence about key issues. The first section of the article briefly charts the rise to prominence of the mainstream 'collective action' school. Each of the themes identified as central to the alternative critical approach is then examined in turn. These are the 'homogenous community' critique, the avoidance of politics critique (further divided into ideational politics and politics of local empowerment) and the sociological critique. The article concludes by reflecting on the challenge of 'making complexity legible' that faces the nascent critical tradition in institutional analysis.Cet article fournit une synthèse des principales analyses scientifiques critiques à l'égard de l'institutionnalisme traditionnel. Il s'appuie sur une approche thématique pour retracer le débat et les points de convergence sur des questions-clés. La première partie de l'article récapitule brièvement la montée en puissance de la théorie traditionnelle de « l'action collective ». Ensuite, les thèmes identifiés comme étant au coeur de l'approche alternative sont examinés tour à tour. Il s'agit, tout d'abord, de la critique du postulat d'« homogénéité de la communauté », puis de la critique de l'évitement du politique (lui-même divisé en politique idéationnelle et en politique d'autonomisation locale) et, enfin, de la critique sociologique. Nous concluons par une réflexion sur le défi de « rendre lisible la complexité », auquel est confrontée la nouvelle tradition critique de l'analyse institutionnelle.

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“…Although many think that the introduction of pumpwells were the main cause of the decline of qanats, MacLachlan in his contribution to the London conference showed that karez systems in the Hari Rud basin in Afghanistan were already in decline before the advent of new pumping technologies and causes of decline should also be sought in internal factors. In 1984 publications by Sutton and Birks described the modern difficulties and the social and economics challenges facing qanats in Oman (Sutton, 1984;Birks, 1984). In the London proceedings, Dutton gives an example of a qanat renewal in Araqi, Oman and concludes that rapid economic and social change is threatening the existence of qanats, it suggests a long-term programme to help ensure and maintain, in a modern context, the important role of qanats.…”

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To Cooperate or not to Cooperate...? : Collective action for rehabilitation of traditional water tunnel systems (qanats) in Syria

Wessels

2008

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“…The total area cultivated by the live aflaj was estimated to be 26,484 ha. The water from aflaj has provided the people of Oman with domestic and agricultural water for more than 1,500-2,000 years (Sutton 1984;Abdel-Rahman and Omezzine 1996;Al-Marshudi 2001).…”

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Water quality mapping and assessment, and weathering processes of selected aflaj in Oman

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Jamarh

Al-Futaisi

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Environ Monit Assess

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There are more than 4,000 falaj (singular of a peculiar dug channel) distributed in different regions in Oman. The chemical characteristics of the water in 42 falaj were studied to evaluate the major ion chemistry; geochemical processes controlling water composition; and suitability of water for drinking, domestic, and irrigation uses. GIS-based maps indicate that the spatial distribution of chemical properties and concentrations vary within the same region and the different regions as well. The molar ratios of (Ca + Mg)/Total cations, (Na + K)/Total cations, (Ca + Mg)/(Na + K), (Ca + Mg)/(HCO₃ + SO₄), and Na/Cl reveal that the water chemistry of the majority of aflaj are dominated by carbonate weathering and evaporite dissolution, with minor contribution of silicate weathering. The concentrations of most of the elements were less than the permissible limits of Omani standards and WHO guidelines for drinking water and domestic use and do not generally pose any health and environmental problems. Some aflaj in ASH Sharqiyah and Muscat regions can be used for irrigation with slight to severe restriction because of the high levels of electrical conductivity, total dissolved solids, chloride, and sodium absorption ratio.

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The falaj – a traditional co-operative system of water management

Cited by 25 publications

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Capturing Critical Institutionalism: A Synthesis of Key Themes and Debates

Capturing Critical Institutionalism: A Synthesis of Key Themes and Debates

To Cooperate or not to Cooperate...? : Collective action for rehabilitation of traditional water tunnel systems (qanats) in Syria

Water quality mapping and assessment, and weathering processes of selected aflaj in Oman

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