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Record Nr.

UNINA9910573814603321

Autore

Mabry Jonathan B

Titolo

Canals and Communities : : Small-Scale Irrigation Systems / / edited by Jonathan B. Mabry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Arizona Press, 1996

Tucson : , : University of Arizona Press, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

0-8165-4892-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : : illustrations, maps ;

Collana

Arizona studies in human ecology

Altri autori (Persone)

MabryJonathan B. <1961->

Soggetti

Eau - Droit - Pays en voie de developpement - Congres

Approvisionnement agricole en eau - Pays en voie de developpement - Congres

Eau d'irrigation - Pays en voie de developpement - Congres

Irrigatie (waterhuishouding)

Wasserversorgung

Wasserrecht

Landwirtschaft

Bewässerungssystem

Water-supply, Agricultural - Management

Water rights

Irrigation water - Management

48.34 irrigation, drainage

Water rights - Developing countries

Water-supply, Agricultural - Developing countries - Management

Irrigation water - Developing countries - Management

Conference papers and proceedings.

Electronic books.

Tucson &lt;Ariz., 1990&gt

Entwicklungsländer

Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of the proceedings of a workshop held at the University of



Arizona Apr. 29, 1990.

Nota di contenuto

The utility of tradition in Sri Lankan bureaucratic irrigation: the case of the Kirindi Oya project / Pamela C. Stanbury -- The relevance of indigenous irrigation: a comparative analysis of sustainability / Jonathan B. Mabry, David A. Cleveland.

The ethnology of local irrigation / Jonathan B. Mabry -- La gente es muy perra: conflict and cooperation over irrigation water in Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico / Thomas E. Sheridan -- Dhasheeg agriculture in Jubba valley, Somalia / Catherine Besteman -- The dry and the drier: cooperation and conflict in Moroccan irrigation / John R. Welch -- The political ecology of irrigation in an Andean peasant community / Paul H. Gelles -- Rapid rural appraisal of arid land irrigation: a Moroccan example / John R. Welch, Jonathan B. Mabry, Hsain Ilahiane -- Simulation modeling of Balinese irrigation / J. Stephen Lansing -- Institutional innovation in small-scale irrigation networks: a Cape Verdean case / Mark W. Langworthy, Timothy J. Finan -- Qanats and rural societies: sustainable agriculture and irrigation cultures in contemporary Iran / Michael E. Bonine.

Sommario/riassunto

Includes material on irrigation in Mexico, Somalia, Morocco, the Andes, Bali, Cape Verde, Iran, and Sri Lanka.