This volume, number 15 in the Studies in Water Policy and Management Series and joins two other volumes (8 and 10) that collectively summarize a significant part of the post-World War II experience of Western experts and donors with the development and management of irrigation in Third World countries.

Robert A. Young was a faculty member at University of Arizona before joining the faculty at Colorado State University in 1970. He was a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics for 21 years, and then was Professor Emeritus until his death in 2013.

1 INTRODUCTION: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND INSTITUTIONAL ASPECI'S OF IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT, PART I GENERAL ISSUES AND METHODOLOGIES, PART ll SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS, PART Ill EFFECTIVENESS AND EQUITY IMPLICATIONS, PART IV ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF WATER ALLOCATION ISSUES