1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910446316203321

Titolo

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

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910895869503321

Titolo

Resource bulletin PNW

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Portland, Or., : Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

333.75/09795

Soggetti

Forests and forestry - Northwest, Pacific

Forest products - Northwest, Pacific

Timber - Northwest, Pacific

Forêts - États-Unis (Nord-Ouest)

Bois - États-Unis (Nord-Ouest)

Produits forestiers - États-Unis (Nord-Ouest)

Forest products

Forests and forestry

Timber

Internet resource

Pacific Northwest

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico