Isha Ray

ARCHIVAL PUBLICATIONS

NEW: The Contested Commons, edited by Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray.

Journal Publications

Wong-Parodi, Gabrielle, Isha Ray and Alexander Farrell. (2008). ‘Environmental non-government organizations' perceptions of geologic sequestration.’ Environmental Research Letters, 3.

De Wilde, Carol, Anita Milman, Yvonne Flores, Jorge Salmeròn and Isha Ray. (Forthcoming 2008). ‘An integrated method for evaluating community-based safe water programs and an application in rural Mexico.’ Health Policy and Planning. Figures.

Cochran, Jaquelin and Isha Ray. (Forthcoming 2009). ‘Equity Reexamined: A study of community-based rainwater harvesting in Rajasthan, India.’ World Development.

Kuriyan, Renee, Isha Ray and Kentaro Toyama. (2008). ‘Information and communication technologies for development: The bottom of the pyramid model in practice.’ The Information Society, 24.

David McKenzie and Isha Ray. (Forthcoming 2008). ‘Urban water supply in India: Status, reform options, and possible lessons.’ Water Policy.

Ray, Isha (2007). ‘Women, water and development.’ Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 32: 421 – 449.

Ray, Isha (2006). ‘Outcomes and processes in economics and anthropology.’ Economic Development and Cultural Change, 54: 677 – 694.

[Reprinted as Chapter 4 in P. Bardhan and I. Ray (eds.) (2008)]

Bardhan, PK and Isha Ray (2006). ‘Methodological approaches to the question of the commons.’ Economic Development and Cultural Change, 54: 655 – 676.

Ray, Isha (2005). ‘Get the prices right: water prices and irrigation efficiency.’ Economic and Political Weekly, August 13 2005: 3659 – 3668.

[Reprinted as Chapter 4 in F. Molle and J. Berkoff (eds.) (2007) Irrigation Water Pricing: The Gap Between Theory and Practice, Wallingford: CABI Publishing]

Ray, Isha (2002). ‘Farm-level incentives for irrigation efficiency: some lessons from an Indian canal.’ Water Resources Update, 121: 64 – 71. 

Ray, Isha and Jeffrey Williams (2002). ‘Locational asymmetry and the potential for cooperation on a canal.’ Journal of Development Economics, 67: 129 – 155.

Ray, Isha, Gershon Baskin, Zakaria al-Qaq and W. Michael Hanemann (2001). ‘Environmental diplomacy in the Jordan Basin.’ IGCC Policy Paper 42 (ISBN 0-934637-58-X)

Ray, Isha and Serap Gül (1999). ‘More from less: policy options and farmer choice under water scarcity.’ Irrigation and Drainage Systems, 13: 361 – 383.

Ray, Isha and Jeffrey Williams (1999). ‘Evaluation of price policy in the presence of water theft.’ American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 81: 928 – 941.

Conference Proceedings (peer-reviewed)

Kuriyan, Renee and Isha Ray. (2007). ‘Private Public Partnerships and Information Technologies for Development in India.’ Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference ICTD 2007: 310 – 320.

Kuriyan, R, K Toyama, and I Ray. 2006. ‘Integrating Social Development and Financial Sustainability: The Social and Political Challenges of Kiosks.’ Proceedings of IEEE International Conference ICTD 2006: 121 – 130.

Book Chapters and Other Publications

Bardhan, PK and Isha Ray (Forthcoming 2008). ‘Methodological Approaches in Economics and Anthropology.’ Elgar Companion to Social Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Kuriyan, Renee, Isha Ray and Daniel Kammen (2008). ‘How to use technology to spur development.’ Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 2008: 70 – 74.

Bardhan, Pranab and Isha Ray (2008). ‘Economists, Anthropologists and the Contested Commons.’ Chapter 1 in P. Bardhan and I. Ray (eds.) The Contested Commons, Malden and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Kallis, Giorgos, Michael Kiparsky, Anita Milman and Isha Ray (2006). ‘Glossing over the complexity of water.’ Science Letters 314: 1387 – 1388, 1 December 2006.

McKenzie, David and Isha Ray (2005). ‘Household water delivery options in urban and rural India.’ Proceedings of 5th Stanford University India Conference. Stanford Center for International Development Working Paper 224. s