Lankford, Bruce and Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe (2024) A proposal for an academy to deliver capacity building in agricultural water management with particular reference to irrigation. Irrigation and Drainage. ISSN 1531-0353
Geere, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9071-2778, Hunter, Paul R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5608-6144 and Lankford, Bruce (2023) Water and Health. In: Routledge Handbook of Water and Development. Taylor and Francis, pp. 311-320. ISBN 9780367558765
Lankford, Bruce A and Scott, Christopher A (2023) The paracommons of competition for resource savings: Irrigation water conservation redistributes water between irrigation, nature, and society. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 198. ISSN 0921-3449
Lankford, Bruce A. (2023) Resolving the paradoxes of irrigation efficiency: Irrigated systems accounting analyses depletion-based water conservation for reallocation. Agricultural Water Management, 287. ISSN 0378-3774
Lankford, Bruce, Pringle, Catherine, McCosh, Jon, Shabalala, Mlungisi, Hess, Tim and Knox, Jerry W. (2023) Irrigation area, efficiency and water storage mediate the drought resilience of irrigated agriculture in a semi-arid catchment. Science of the Total Environment, 859 (Part 2). ISSN 0048-9697
Lankford, Bruce A. (2022) Irrigated agriculture: more than ‘big water’ and ‘accountants will [not] save the world’. Water International, 47 (7). pp. 1155-1164. ISSN 0250-8060
Lankford, Bruce A. and Grasham, Catherine F. (2021) Agri-vector water: boosting rainfed agriculture with urban water allocation to support urban–rural linkages. Water International, 46 (3). pp. 432-450. ISSN 0250-8060
Lankford, Bruce, Closas, Alvar, Dalton, James, López Gunn, Elena, Hess, Tim, Knox, Jerry W., van der Kooij, Saskia, Lautze, Jonathan, Molden, David, Orr, Stuart, Pittock, Jamie, Richter, Brian, Riddell, Philip J., Scott, Christopher A., Venot, Jean Philippe, Vos, Jeroen and Zwarteveen, Margreet (2020) A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions, 65. ISSN 0959-3780
Lankford, Bruce A. and Craven, Joanne (2020) Rapid games designing; constructing a dynamic metaphor to explore complex systems and abstract concepts. Sustainability, 12 (17). ISSN 2071-1050
McCartney, Matthew P., Whiting, Louise, Makin, Ian, Lankford, Bruce A. and Ringler, Claudia (2019) Rethinking irrigation modernisation: Realising multiple objectives through the integration of fisheries. Marine and Freshwater Research, 70 (9). pp. 1201-1210. ISSN 1323-1650
Wiggins, Steve and Lankford, Bruce (2019) Farmer-led irrigation in sub-saharan Africa: synthesis of current understandings. Synthesis Report of the DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme. UNSPECIFIED.
van der Kooij, Saskia, Kuper, Marcel, de Fraiture, Charlotte, Lankford, Bruce and Zwarteveen, Margreet (2017) Re-allocating yet-to-be-saved water in irrigation modernization projects:The case of the Bittit Irrigation System, Morocco. In: Drip Irrigation for Agriculture. Taylor and Francis, pp. 68-84. ISBN 9781138687073
Hooper, Virginia and Lankford, Bruce (2017) Unintended Water Allocation: Gaining Share from Indirect Action and Inaction. In: The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199335084
Bruns, Antje, Krueger, Tobias, Lankford, Bruce, Frick, Fanny, Grasham, Catherine and Spitzbart-Glasl, Christina (2016) A Water Perspective on Land Competition. In: Land Use Competition. Human-Environment Interactions . Springer, pp. 313-332. ISBN 978-3-319-33628-2
Zeitoun, Mark, Lankford, Bruce, Krueger, Tobias, Forsyth, Tim, Carter, Richard, Hoekstra, Arjen Y., Taylor, Richard, Varis, Olli, Cleaver, Frances, Boelens, Rutgerd, Swatuk, Larry, Tickner, David, Scott, Christopher A., Mirumachi, Naho and Matthews, Nathanial (2016) Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions, 39. 143–154. ISSN 0959-3780
Grafton, R. Quentin, McLindin, Mahala, Hussey, Karen, Wyrwoll, Paul, Wichelns, Dennis, Ringler, Claudia, Garrick, Dustin, Pittock, Jamie, Wheeler, Sarah, Orr, Stuart, Matthews, Nathanial, Ansink, Erik, Aureli, Alice, Connell, Daniel, De Stefano, Lucia, Dowsley, Kate, Farolfi, Stefano, Hall, Jim, Katic, Pamela, Lankford, Bruce, Leckie, Hannah, McCartney, Matthew, Pohlner, Huw, Ratna, Nazmun, Rubarenzya, Mark Henry, Sai Raman, Shriman Narayan, Wheeler, Kevin and Williams, John (2016) Responding to global challenges in food, energy, environment and water: Risks and options assessment for decision-making. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 3 (2). pp. 275-299. ISSN 2050-2680
Lankford, Bruce, Makin, Ian, Matthews, Nathanial, Noble, Andrew, McCornick, Peter G. and Shah, Tushaar (2016) A compact to revitalise large-scale irrigation systems using a leadership-partnership-ownership ‘theory of change’. Water Alternatives, 9 (1). pp. 1-32. ISSN 1965-0175
Conway, Declan, Archer van Garderen, Emma, Deryng, Delphine, Dorling, Stephen, Krueger, Tobias, Landman, Willem, Lankford, Bruce, Lebek, Karen, Osborn, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8425-6799, Ringler, Claudia, Thurlow, James, Zhu, Tingju and Dalin, Carole (2015) Climate and southern Africa's water-energy-food nexus. Nature Climate Change, 5. pp. 837-846. ISSN 1758-678X
Lankford, Bruce (2013) Infrastructure Hydromentalities:Water Sharing, Water Control and Water (In)Security. In: Water Security. Earthscan Water Text . Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415534703
Lankford, Bruce (2013) Resource efficiency complexity and the commons:The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses, Wastes and Wastages. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-82846-8
Lankford, Bruce (2013) Does Article 6 (factors relevant to equitable and reasonable utilisation) in the UN Watercourses Convention misdirect riparian countries? Water International, 38 (2 Special Issue). pp. 130-145. ISSN 0250-8060
Lankford, Bruce (2013) A Synthesis Chapter: The Incodys Water Security Model. In: Water security: Principles, perspectives and practices. Earthscan Publications, London. ISBN 978-0-415-53471-0
Lankford, Bruce (2012) Preface; Towards a political ecology of irrigation efficiency and productivity. Agricultural Water Management, 108. pp. 1-2. ISSN 0378-3774
Lankford, Bruce (2012) Fictions, fractions, factorials, fractures and fractals; on the framing of irrigation efficiency. Agricultural Water Management, 108. pp. 27-38.
Lankford, Bruce, Pringle, Catherine, Dickens, Chris, Lewis, Fonda, Mander, Myles, Chhotray, Vasudha, Goulden, Marisa, Nxele, Zibonele and Quayle, Leo (2011) Hydrological modelling of water allocation, ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in the Pongola floodplain, South Africa. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 54 (9). pp. 1237-1260. ISSN 0964-0568
Bunclark, L. A. and Lankford, B. A. (2011) Rainwater harvesting: A suitable poverty reduction strategy for small-scale farmers in developing countries? Waterlines, 30 (4). pp. 312-327. ISSN 0262-8104
Lankford, Bruce (2010) Responding to water scarcity – beyond the volumetric. In: The Limits to Scarcity: Contesting the Politics of Allocation. Science in Society series . Earthscan. ISBN 9781844075423
Pittock, J and Lankford, B. (2010) Environmental water requirements: demand management in an era of water scarcity. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 7 (1). pp. 75-93. ISSN 1943-815X
Lankford, Bruce (2010) Improving irrigated agricultural productivity in an age of food and water scarcity. In: Tackling the world water crisis: reshaping the future of foreign policy. The Foreign Policy Centre. ISBN 10 1-905833-17-2
Lankford, Bruce and Hepworth, Nick (2010) The cathedral and the bazaar: Monocentric and polycentric river basin management. Water Alternatives, 3 (1). pp. 82-101. ISSN 1965-0175
Lankford, Bruce (2009) The right irrigation? Policy directions for agricultural water management in sub-Saharan Africa. Water Alternatives, 2 (3). pp. 476-480.
Lankford, Bruce and Hakes, C (2009) Water disputes: A case study from Tanzania. Geography Review, 22 (3). pp. 34-38.
Lankford, Bruce A., Tumbo, Siza and Rajabu, Kossa (2009) Water competition, variability and river basin governance: a critical analysis of the Great Ruaha River, Tanzania. In: River Basin Trajectories: Societies, Environments and Development. Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture series . CABI. ISBN 9781845935382
Mehari, Abraham, Van Koppen, Barbara, McCartney, Matthew and Lankford, Bruce (2009) Unchartered innovation? Local reforms of national formal water management in the Mkoji sub-catchment, Tanzania. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 34 (4-5). pp. 299-308.
Lankford, Bruce (2008) Integrated, adaptive and domanial water resources management. In: Adaptive and Integrated Water Management. Springer, pp. 39-59. ISBN 978-3-540-75940-9
Magombeyi, M., Rollin, D. and Lankford, B. (2008) The river basin game as a tool for collective water management at community level in South Africa. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 33 (8-13). pp. 873-880.
McCartney, M. P., Kashaigili, J. J., Lankford, B. A. and Mahoo, H. F. (2008) Hydrological modelling to assist water management in the Usangu wetlands, Tanzania. International Journal of River Basin Management, 6 (1). pp. 51-61. ISSN 1814-2060
Lankford, B. and Mwaruvanda, W. (2007) A legal-infrastructural framework for catchment apportionment. In: Community-based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries. Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series . CABI Publishing, pp. 228-247. ISBN 9781845933265
van Koppen, B., Sokile, C., Lankford, B., Mahoo, H., Hatibu, N. and Yanda, C. (2007) Water rights and water fees in Tanzania. In: Irrigation Water Pricing: The Gap Between Theory and Practice. Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series . IWMI/CABI Publishing, pp. 143-164. ISBN 9781845932923
Lankford, Bruce and Beale, Thomas (2007) Equilibrium and non-equilibrium theories of sustainable water resources management: dynamic river basin and irrigation behaviour in Tanzania. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions, 17 (2). pp. 168-180. ISSN 0959-3780
Lankford, B. (2007) The rise of large scale formal smallholder irrigation schemes in Swaziland: an appropriate solution for rural livelihoods and agricultural production. Working Paper. DEV Working Paper, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Lankford, B. and Dickinson, S. (2007) Water management issues and problems in Africa. CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 032.
Lankford, Bruce and Hepworth, Nick (2007) The Cathedral and the bazaar: (de)centralising certitude in river basin management. Working Paper. DEV Working Paper, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Lankford, Bruce A., Merrey, Douglas J., Cour, Julien and Hepworth, Nick (2007) From integrated to expedient: an adaptive framework for river basin management in developing countries. Working Paper. International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Mahoo, Henry F., Mkoga, Zakaria Juma, Kasele, Sydney Stephen, Igbadun, Henry E., Hatibu, Nuhu, Rao, Karuturi P. C. and Lankford, Bruce (2007) Productivity of water in agriculture: farmers’ perceptions and practices. Discussion Paper. International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka.
McCartney, Matthew P., Lankford, Bruce A. and Mahoo, Henry F. (2007) Agricultural water management in a water stressed catchment: lessons from the RIPARWIN project. Working Paper. International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Lankford, Bruce (2006) Localising irrigation efficiency. Irrigation and Drainage Systems, 55 (4). pp. 345-362.
Kashaigili, Japhet J., McCartney, Matthew P., Mahoo, Henry F., Lankford, Bruce A., Mbilinyi, Boniface P., Yawson, Daniel K. and Tumbo, Siza D. (2006) Use of a hydrological model for environmental management of the Usangu wetlands, Tanzania. Working Paper. International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Lankford, Bruce A. L. and Watson, Drennan (2006) Metaphor in natural resource gaming; insights from the River Basin Game. Simulation and Gaming, 38 (3). pp. 421-442. ISSN 1046-8781
Palmer Jones, R. and Lankford, B. (2005) Agricultural development: reflections on the study of the irrigation potential of the Usangu Plains of Tanzania. In: Development Economics and Social Justice. Ashgate Publishing, pp. 141-158. ISBN 978-0-7546-3879-7
Kadigi, R.M.J., Mdoe, N.S., Lankford, B. and Moradet, S. (2005) The value of water for irrigated rice and hydropower generation in the Great Ruaha, Tanzania. In: East Africa “Integrated River Basin Management” Conference, 2005-03-07 - 2005-03-09, ICE Hall, Sokoine University of Agriculture.
Kashaigili, J.J., Mahoo, H.F., McCartney, M., Lankford, B., Mbilinyi, B.P. and Mwanuzi, F.L. (2005) Integrated hydrological modelling of wetlands for environmental management: the case of the Usangu wetlands in the Great Ruaha Catchment. In: East Africa “Integrated River Basin Management” Conference, 2005-03-07 - 2005-03-09, ICE Hall, Sokoine University of Agriculture.
Kashaigili, Japhet J., Kadigi, Reuben M. J., Lankford, Bruce A., Mahoo, Henry F. and Mashauri, Damus A. (2005) Environmental flows allocation in river basins: exploring allocation challenges and options in the Great Ruaha River catchment in Tanzania. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 30 (11-16). pp. 689-697.
Lankford, B. (2005) Rural infrastructure to contribute to African agricultural development: the case of irrigation. Working Paper. School of International Development, University of East Anglia.
Mkoga, Z.J., Hatibu, N., Mahoo, H., Lankford, B. and Rao, K.P.C. (2005) Disparity of attitudes and practices on a concept of productivity of water in agriculture in the Great Ruaha River Sub-Basin. In: East Africa River Basin Management Conference, 2005-03-07 - 2005-03-09.
Lankford, B. (2004) Irrigation, livelihoods and river basins. In: Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Policies. Routledge Studies in Development Economics series . Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-34119-6
Franks, Tom, Lankford, Bruce and Mdemu, Makarius (2004) Managing water amongst competing uses: the Usangu wetland in Tanzania. Irrigation and Drainage, 53 (3). pp. 277-286. ISSN 1531-0353
Lankford, B., Sokile, C., Yawson, D. and Lévite, L. (2004) The River Basin Game: a water dialogue tool. Working Paper. International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Lankford, Bruce (2004) Irrigation improvement projects in Tanzania: Scale impacts and policy implications. Water Policy, 6 (2). pp. 89-102. ISSN 1366-7017
Lankford, Bruce, van Koppen, Barbara, Franks, Tom and Mahoo, Henry (2004) Entrenched views or insufficient science? Contested causes and solutions of water allocation; insights from the Great Ruaha River Basin, Tanzania. Agricultural Water Management, 69 (2). pp. 135-153.
Lankford, Bruce A. (2004) Resource-centred thinking in river basin; should we revoke the crop water requirement approach to irrigation planning? Agricultural Water Management, 68 (1). pp. 33-46. ISSN 0378-3774
Mdemu, Makarius V., Magayane, Machibya D., Lankford, Bruce, Hatibu, Nuhu and Kadigi, Reuben M. J. (2004) Conjoining rainfall and irrigation seasonality to enhance productivity of water in rice irrigated farms in the Upper Ruaha River Basin, Tanzania. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 29 (15-18). pp. 1119-1124.
van Koppen, B., Sokile, C., Hatibu, N.C., Lankford, B., Mahoo, H. and Yanda, P. (2004) Formal water rights in Tanzania: deepening the dichotomy? Working Paper. International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Columbo, Sri Lanka.
Lankford, B. and Sokile, C. (2003) Reflections on the river basin game: role-playing facilitation of surface water allocation in contested environments. In: ICID 20th European Regional Conference Water and Conflict, 2003-09-17 - 2003-09-19.
Lankford, B. A. (2003) Environmental water requirements: a demand management perspective. Water and Environment Journal, 17 (1). pp. 19-22. ISSN 1747-6585
Lankford, Bruce (2003) Irrigation-based livelihood trends in river basins: theory and policy implications for irrigation development. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 28 (20-27). pp. 817-825.
Lankford, B. (2002) Irrigation, livelihoods and river basins. Working Paper. University of East Anglia.
Lankford, Bruce A. (2001) Red Routes on Blue Rivers: strategic water management for the Ruaha River Basin, Tanzania. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 17 (3). pp. 427-444. ISSN 0790-0627
Lankford, Bruce and Franks, Tom (2000) The sustainable coexistence of wetlands and rice irrigation: a case study from Tanzania. Journal of Environment & Development, 9 (2). pp. 119-137. ISSN 1070-4965
Lankford, B. (1998) Effective monitoring of canal irrigation with minimum or no flow measurement. In: Water and the Environment: Innovative Issues in Irrigation and Drainage. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-0419237105
Lankford, B. and Gowing, J.W. (1998) Participatory research of water control on surface irrigation systems: informing perceptions. In: Water and the Environment: Innovative Issues in Irrigation and Drainage. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-0419237105
Lankford, B. and Gowing, J. (1997) Providing a water delivery service through design management interactions and system management. In: Water: Economics, Management and Demand. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-0419218401
Lankford, Bruce and Gowing, John (1996) The impact of design approximations on the operational performance of an irrigation scheme: A case study in Malaysia. Irrigation and Drainage Systems, 10 (3). pp. 193-205. ISSN 0168-6291
Lankford, B. and Gowing, J. (1996) Understanding water supply control in canal irrigation systems. In: Water Policy: Allocation and Management in Practice. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-0419216506
Lankford, Bruce Alistair (1992) The use of measured water flows in furrow irrigation management? A case study in Swaziland. Irrigation and Drainage Systems, 6 (2). pp. 113-128. ISSN 0168-6291
Ellis, R. and Lankford, B. (1990) The tolerance of sugarcane to water stress during its main development phases. Agricultural Water Management, 17 (1-3). pp. 117-128.