Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Butterworth, John (Editor), Giordano, Mark (Editor), Koppen, B. C. P. van (Barbara C. P.) (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
Series:	Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series ; 5.
Subjects:	Water resources development > Developing countries. Water > Law and legislation > Developing countries. Community Participation and Development, (New March 2000) Income and Poverty. Laws and Regulations. Policy and Planning. Soil Water Management (Irrigation and Drainage), (Revised June 2002) Water Resources. Community involvement. Poverty. Social participation. Water law. Water management. Water policy. Water resources. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Community-based water law and water resources management reform in developing countries : rationale, contents and key messages / Barbara van Koppen, Mark Giordano, John Butterworth and Everisto Mapedza
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, Seleshi Bekele Awulachew, Regassa Ensermu Namara, Mukand Singh Babel and Ashim Das Gupta
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, Brent Swallow, Jessica L. Roy and Ruth Meinzen-Dick
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, Anne Hellum, Emmanuel Manzungu, Pinimidzai Sithole and Rose Machiridza.