Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
Note: Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.
Contents Contributors Series Foreword Foreword Preface Acronyms 1. 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 2. Understanding Legal Pluralism in Water and Land Rights: Lessons from Africa and Asia Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Leticia Nkonya 3. Community Priorities for Water Rights: Some Conjectures on Assumptions, Principles and Programmes Bryan Bruns 4. Dispossession at the Interface of Community-Based Water Law and Permit Systems Barbara van Koppen 5. Issues in Reforming Informal Water Economies of Low-Income Countries: Examples from India and Elsewhere Tushaar Shah 6. 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 7. Water Rights and Rules, and Management in Spate Irrigation Systems in Eritrea, Yemen and Pakistan Abraham Mehari, Frank Van Steenbergen and Bart Schultz 8. Local Institutions for Wetland Management in Ethiopia: Sustainability and State Intervention Alan B. Dixon and Adrian P. Wood 9. Indigenous Systems of Conflict Resolution in Oromia, Ethiopia Desalegn Chemeda Endossa, Seleshi Bekele Awulachew, Regassa Ensermu Namara, Mukand Singh Babel and Ashim Das Gupta 10. 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 W. O. 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
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Water -- Law and legislation -- Developing countries.
Water resources development -- Developing countries.