Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries /

Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries /

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Imprint:Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, c2007.
Description:xvii, 280 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture ; 5
Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series ; 5.
Subject:
Water -- Law and legislation -- Developing countries.
Water resources development -- Developing countries.
Water -- Law and legislation.
Water resources development.
Developing countries.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6816588
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Other authors / contributors:Koppen, B. C. P. van (Barbara C. P.)
Giordano, Mark.
Butterworth, John.
ISBN:9781845933265 (alk. paper)
1845933265 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Series Foreword
  • Foreword
  • Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • 1. Community-based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries: Rationale, Contents and Key Messages
  • 2. Understanding Legal Pluralism in Water and Land Rights: Lessons from Africa and Asia
  • 3. Community Priorities for Water Rights: Some Conjectures on Assumptions, Principles and Programmes
  • 4. Dispossession at the Interface of Community-based Water Law and Permit Systems
  • 5. Issues in Reforming Informal Water Economies of Low-income Countries: Examples from India and Elsewhere
  • 6. Legal Pluralism and the Politics of Inclusion: Recognition and Contestation of Local Water Rights in the Andes
  • 7. Water Rights and Rules, and Management in Spate Irrigation Systems in Eritrea, Yemen and Pakistan
  • 8. Local Institutions for Wetland Management in Ethiopia: Sustainability and State Intervention
  • 9. Indigenous Systems of Conflict Resolution in Oromia, Ethiopia
  • 10. Kenya's New Water Law: an Analysis of the Implications of Kenya's Water Act, 2002, for the Rural Poor
  • 11. Coping with History and Hydrology: How Kenya's Settlement and Land Tenure Patterns Shape Contemporary Water Rights and Gender Relations in Water
  • 12. Irrigation Management and Poverty Dynamics: Case Study of the Nyando Basin in Western Kenya
  • 13. If Government Failed, how are we to Succeed? The Importance of History and Context in Present-day Irrigation Reform in Malawi
  • 14. A Legal-Infrastructural Framework for Catchment Apportionment
  • 15. Intersections of Law, Human Rights and Water Management in Zimbabwe: Implications for Rural Livelihoods
  • Index

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