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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Koppen, B. C. P. van (Barbara C. P.), Giordano, Mark, Butterworth, John (John Andrew)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wallingford : CABI, 2007.
Colección:Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series ; 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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].