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

By:

Koppen, B. C. P. van [Editor]

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Material type: Article

ArticleSeries: Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series, 5Publication details: Wallingford, UK : CABI, 2007Description: xvii, 280 pages : illustrationsISBN:

9781845933265

ISSN:

1845933265

DDC classification:

346.04691 COM

Contents:

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]

Summary: 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

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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

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