000 02992naa a2200205 4500
020 _a9781845933265
022 _a1845933265
082 _a346.04691
_bCOM
100 _aKoppen, B. C. P. van
_eedt
245 _aCommunity-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries
260 _aWallingford, UK :
_bCABI,
_c2007
300 _axvii, 280 pages :
_billustrations
490 _a Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series, 5
500 _aIncludes index
505 _a 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]
520 _aThe 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
700 _aGiordano, Mark [Editor]
700 _aButterworth, John [Editor]
942 _cPR
999 _c45070
_d45070