Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries / / edited by Barbara van Koppen, Mark Giordano and John Butterworth

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910446316203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : CABI, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-06042-9; 9786611060428; 1-84593-327-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Collana: Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture ; ; 5
• Altri autori (Persone): KoppenB. C. P. van (Barbara C. P.); GiordanoMark; ButterworthJohn
• Disciplina: 346.04/691
• Soggetti: Water - Law and legislation - Developing countries; Water resources development - Developing countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Preface; Series Foreword; Foreword; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Community-based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries: Rationale, Contents and Key Messages; 2 Understanding Legal Pluralism in Water and Land Rights: Lessons from Africa and Asia; 3 Community Priorities for Water Rights: Some Conjectures on Assumptions, Principles and Programmes; 4 Dispossession at the Interface of Community-based Water Law and Permit Systems; 5 Issues in Reforming Informal Water Economies of Low-income Countries: Examples from India and Elsewhere; 6 Legal Pluralism and the Politics of Inclusion: Recognition and Contestation of Local Water Rights in the Andes7 Water Rights and Rules, and Management in Spate Irrigation Systems in Eritrea, Yemen and Pakistan; 8 Local Institutions for Wetland Management in Ethiopia: Sustainability and State Intervention; 9 Indigenous Systems of Conflict Resolution in Oromia, Ethiopia; 10 Kenya's New Water Law: an Analysis of the Implications of Kenya's Water Act, 2002, for the Rural Poor; 11 Coping with History and Hydrology: How Kenya's Settlement and Land Tenure Patterns Shape Contemporary Water Rights and Gender Relations in Water12 Irrigation Management and Poverty Dynamics: Case Study of the Nyando Basin in Western Kenya; 13 If Government Failed, how are we to Succeed? The Importance of History and Context in Present-day Irrigation Reform in Malawi; 14 A Legal-Infrastructural Framework for Catchment Apportionment; 15 Intersections of Law, Human Rights and Water Management in Zimbabwe: Implications for Rural Livelihoods; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Shows how bringing together the strengths of community-based laws rooted in user participation and the formalized legal systems of the public sector, water management regimes will be able to reach their goals.