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

Koppen, B. C. P. van

Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries - Wallingford, UK : CABI, 2007 - xvii, 280 pages : illustrations - Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series, 5 .

Includes index


Community-based water law and water resources management reform in developing countries : rationale, contents and key messages / 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 : 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 [and others]
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 [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 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 [and others]

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

9781845933265

1845933265

346.04691 / COM

© University of Vavuniya

------