| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 280 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series ; 5 |
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Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series ; 5.
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| Contents |
Community-based water law and water resources management reform in developing countries / Barbara van Koppen [and others] -- Understanding legal pluralism in water and land rights: lessons from Africa and Asia / Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Leticia Nkonya -- Community priorities for water rights / Bryan Bruns -- Dispossession at the interface of community-based water law and permit systems / Barbara van Koppen -- Issues in reforming informal water economies of low-income countries: examples from India and elsewhere / Tushaar Shah -- Legal pluralism and the politics of inclusion, recognition and contestation of local water rights in the Andes / Rutgerd Boelens, Rocio Bustamante and Hugo de Vos -- Water rights and rules, and management in spate irrigation systems in Eritrea, Yemen and Pakistan / Abraham Mehari, Frank Van Steenbergen and Bart Schultz -- Local institutions for wetland management in Ethiopia / Alan B. Dixon and Adrian P. Wood -- Indigenous systems of conflict resolution in Oromia, Ethiopia / Desalegn Chemeda Endossa [and others] -- Kenya's new water law / Albert Mumma -- Coping with history and hydrology: how Kenya's settlement and land tenure patterns shape contemporary water rights and gender relations in water / Leah Onyango [and others] -- Irrigation management and poverty dynamics: case study of the Nyando Basin in western Kenya / Brent Swallow, Leah Onyango and Ruth Meinzen-Dick -- If government failed, how are we to succeed? The importance of history and context in present-day irrigation reform in Malawi / Anne Ferguson and W.O. Mulwafu -- A legal-infrastructural framework for catchment apportionment / Bruce Lankford and Willie Mwaruvanda -- Intersections of law, human rights and water management in Zimbabwe / Bill Derman [and others] |
| Summary |
The lack of sufficient access to clean water is a common problem faced by communities in developing countries. This book shows how bringing together the strengths of community-based laws rooted in user participation and the formalised legal systems of the public sector, water management regimes will be able to reach their goals |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Water -- Law and legislation -- Developing countries
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Water resources development -- Developing countries
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Community involvement.
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Poverty.
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Social participation.
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Water law.
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Water management.
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Water policy.
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Water resources.
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Water -- Law and legislation
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Water resources development
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Koppen, B. C. P. van (Barbara C. P.)
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Giordano, Mark.
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Butterworth, John (John Andrew)
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| ISBN |
1845933273 |
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9781845933272 |
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1845933273 |
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