Canals and Communities: Small-Scale Irrigation Systems (Arizona Studies in Human Ecology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816515921 ISBN 13: 9780816515929

Verlag: University of Arizona Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

This book presents case studies and comparative essays about local institutions for managing water resources. Drawn from around the globe, the cases clearly demonstrate that "indigenous" irrigation is often more sustainable, cost-effective, and flexible than has been generally believed. The contributors discuss a wide range of environments, cultural traditions, and historical contexts in which such systems operate, maintaining a common focus on incentives for cooperation, operational rules, collective-choice arrangements, principles of allocation, and conflict-resolution mechanisms.
Canals and Communities can serve as a sourcebook for social scientists and development planners investigating the cultural ecology of irrigated agriculture, the ethnology of cooperative social formations, the politics of collective-resource institutions, and the sociology of rural development. The book also provides examples and generalizations about the cross-cultural characteristics of sustainable water resource management and intensive agriculture.

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Jonathan B. Mabry is a research archaeologist and project director at the Center for Desert Archaeology in Tucson, Arizona. He has served as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development and is a coauthor of Rapid Rural Appraisal of Moroccan Irrigation Systems: Methodological Lessons from the Pre-Sahara.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0816515921
• ISBN 13: 9780816515929
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 273
• Herausgeber: Mabry Jonathan B.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar