Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Wallingford, UK; Cambridge, MA
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
CABI
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvii, 280 p.: ill.; 26 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture; 5
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Community-based water law and water resources management reform in developing countries: rationale, contents and key messages / Barbara van Koppen ... ]et al.[ -- Understanding legal pluralism in water and land rights: lessons from Africa and Asia / Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Leticia Nkonya -- Community priorities for water rights: some conjectures on assumptions, principles and programmes / 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: sustainability and state intervention / Alan B. Dixon and Adrian P. Wood -- Indigenous systems of conflict resolution in Oromia, Ethiopia / Desalegn Chemeda Endossa ... ]et al.[ -- Kenya's new water law: an analysis of the implications of Kenya's Water Act, 2002, for the rural poor / 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 ... ]et al.[ -- 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 Wapulumuka Mulwafu -- A legal-infrastructural framework for catchment apportionment / Bruce Lankford and Willie Mwaruvanda -- Intersections of law, human rights and water management in Zimbabwe: implications for rural livelihoods / Bill Derman ... ]et al[
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Entry Element
$AWater$BDeveloping countries -- Law and legislation
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$AWater resources development -- Developing countries
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
346
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04/691
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
K
3496
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C66
2007
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Relator Code
TI
Entry Element
edited by Barbara van Koppen, Mark Giordano and John Butterworth