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Social Capital and Local Water Management in Egypt
From the 1980s onward, billions of dollars were poured into irrigation improvement programs in Egypt. These aimed at improving local Nile water management through the introduction of more water-efficient technology and by placing management of the improved systems in the hands of local water user as...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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La Vergne :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2016.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | From the 1980s onward, billions of dollars were poured into irrigation improvement programs in Egypt. These aimed at improving local Nile water management through the introduction of more water-efficient technology and by placing management of the improved systems in the hands of local water user associations. The central premise of most of these programs was that the functioning of such associations could rely on the revival of traditional forms of social capital-social networks, norms, and trust-for their success. Social Capital and Local Water Management in Egypt shows how the far-reaching. |
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| Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781617977633 1617977632 |