Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries
By: edited by Barbara van Koppen, Mark Giordano and John Butterworth.
Contributors: Koppen, B. C. P. van; Giordano, Mark.; Butterworth, John.
Series: Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture -- 5; Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series -- 5.
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845933265
Subjects: Water -- Law and legislation -- Developing countries; Water resources development -- Developing countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Community-based water law and water resources management reform in developing countries / Barbara van Koppen ... [et al.]; title: Understanding legal pluralism in water and land rights: lessons from Africa and Asia / Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Leticia Nkonya; title: Community priorities for water rights / Bryan Bruns; title: Dispossession at the interface of community-based water law and permit systems / Barbara van Koppen; title: Issues in reforming informal water economies of low-income countries: examples from India and elsewhere / Tushaar Shah; title: 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; title: Water rights and rules, and management in spate irrigation systems in Eritrea, Yemen and Pakistan / Abraham Mehari, Frank Van Steenbergen and Bart Schultz; title: Local institutions for wetland management in Ethiopia / Alan B. Dixon and Adrian P. Wood; title: Indigenous systems of conflict resolution in Oromia, Ethiopia / Desalegn Chemeda Endossa ... [et al.]; title: Kenya's new water law / Albert Mumma; title: Coping with history and hydrology: how Kenya's settlement and land tenure patterns shape contemporary water rights and gender relations in water / Leah Onyango ... [et al.]; title: Irrigation management and poverty dynamics: case study of the Nyando Basin in western Kenya / Brent Swallow, Leah Onyango and Ruth Meinzen-Dick; title: 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; title: A legal-infrastructural framework for catchment apportionment / Bruce Lankford and Willie Mwaruvanda; title: Intersections of law, human rights and water management in Zimbabwe / Bill Derman ... [et al.].