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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 301 EAN: 9780691130668 ISBN: 0691130663 Label: Princeton University Press Manufacturer: Princeton University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 216 Publication Date: April 09, 2007 Publisher: Princeton University Press Studio: Princeton University Press Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Where the Green Revolution failed, golf may succeedA brilliant study of how the ancient social and technical aspects of water management systems in Bali, inextricably bound with nature and religion, undermined the Green Revolution in the 1980s. Highly recommended Rating:  - Vital coverage of development, technology, society, statesLansing shows, through Balinese irrigation, that technology is simultaneously social and political, but often not in the ways imagined by Western academics and development experts. A dispersed system of water temples and priests successfully managed the irrigation of multiple valleys and plots through a process in which ritual served the regulatory function of feedback. Development projects decoupled the elements of the system and led to declining yields and increased pest damage. A computer ... Read More 
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