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Canals and Communities : Small-Scale Irrigation Systems / edited by Jonathan B. Mabry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mabry, Jonathan B., Editor.
- Series:
- Arizona studies in human ecology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water-supply, Agricultural--Management.
- Water rights.
- Irrigation water--Management.
- Water rights--Developing countries--Congresses.
- Water-supply, Agricultural--Developing countries--Management--Congresses.
- Water-supply, Agricultural.
- Irrigation water--Developing countries--Management--Congresses.
- Irrigation water.
- Developing countries.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- University of Arizona Press 1996
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Includes material on irrigation in Mexico, Somalia, Morocco, the Andes, Bali, Cape Verde, Iran, and Sri Lanka.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Revision of the proceedings of a workshop held at the University of Arizona Apr. 29, 1990.
- ISBN:
- 0-8165-4892-7
- OCLC:
- 654984898
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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