Land and Water Rights in the Sahel

Land and Water Rights in the Sahel PDF Author: Lorenzo Cotula
Publisher: IIED
ISBN: 1843696045
Category : Arid regions
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Land and Water Rights in the Sahel

Land and Water Rights in the Sahel PDF Author: Lorenzo Cotula
Publisher: IIED
ISBN: 1843696045
Category : Arid regions
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Land and Water--the Rights Interface

Land and Water--the Rights Interface PDF Author: Stephen Hodgson
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251052143
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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This paper seeks to answer a number of basic questions. First of all just what are land tenure rights and water rights? Second, how do the respective regimes compare? Third what linkages, if any, are there between land tenure rights and water rights and, if there are none, does this matter, either in general or as regards specific aspects of the interface? A key objective of the paper is to examine which aspects of the rights interface merit further research. In comparing the two regimes a final subsidiary objective of this paper is to try and identify which areas, if any, in one sector can shed light on areas for future research in the other.

Community-based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries

Community-based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries PDF Author: Barbara C. P. Koppen
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845933273
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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The lack of sufficient access to clean water is a common problem faced by communities, efforts to alleviate poverty and gender inequality and improve economic growth in developing countries. While reforms have been implemented to manage water resources, these have taken little notice of how people use and manage their water and have had limited effect at the ground level. On the other hand, regulations developed within communities are livelihood-oriented and provide incentives for collective action but they can also be hierarchal, enforcing power and gender inequalities. This book 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 more able to reach their goals.

Problems and progress in land, water and resources rights at the beginning of the third millennium

Problems and progress in land, water and resources rights at the beginning of the third millennium PDF Author: Cristiana Fiamingo
Publisher: Edizioni Altravista
ISBN: 889968815X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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The University of Milan’s SHuS (Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Sustainability and Human Security: Co-operation and Governance agendas) offers a collection of high standard contributions and testimonies of good practice analyzing the complex subjects of access to rights and resources worldwide. This to a world looking to the future and projecting its goals of sustainable development. The thirty three contributors took part in the Milan University sessions of the International Conference dedicated to Land, Water and Resources Rights, organized by the Editor under the auspices of the EU-Joint Research Centre Expo 2015 and the City of Milan Scientific Committee for Expo 2015. With no claims to being exhaustive, the multi-disciplinary approach and the inter-disciplinary perspectives adopted to the topics are enforced by suggestions for political and legal approaches that a regional structure like the EU should be adopting to prevent legitimization leading to severe forms of injustice against communities and individuals. SHuS has chosen open access to this e-book in order to create a seamless connection between scientific communities and the wider civil society. Thus it underscores one of the priorities of the Centre by ensuring the greatest possible impact of much needed multifaceted scientific approaches to society and the problems afflicting it.

The Human Right to Water

The Human Right to Water PDF Author: Malcolm Langford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107010705
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 737

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The first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the human right to water in theory and in practice.

Flows and Practices

Flows and Practices PDF Author: Mehta, Lyla
Publisher: Weaver Press
ISBN: 1779223145
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 379

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For the past two decades, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been the dominant paradigm in water resources. This book explores how ideas of IWRM are being translated and adapted in Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Grounded in social science theory and research, it highlights the importance of politics, history and culture in shaping water management practices and reform, and demonstrates how Africa has clearly been a laboratory for IWRM. While a new cadre of professionals made IWRM their mission, we show that poor women and men may not have always benefitted. In some cases IWRM has also offered a distraction from more critical issues such as water and land grabs, privatisation, the negative impacts of water permits, and a range of institutional ambiguities that prevent water allocations to small and poor water users. By critically examining the interpretations and challenges of IWRM, the book contributes to improving water policies and practices and making them more locally appropriate in Africa and beyond.

Global Land Grabs

Global Land Grabs PDF Author: Marc Edelman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317569504
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Since the 2008 world food crisis a surge of land grabbing swept Africa, Asia and Latin America and even some regions of Europe and North America. Investors have uprooted rural communities for massive agricultural, biofuels, mining, industrial and urbanisation projects. ‘Water grabbing’ and ‘green grabbing’ have further exacerbated social tensions. Early analyses of land grabbing focused on foreign actors, the biofuels boom and Africa, and pointed to catastrophic consequences for the rural poor. Subsequently scholars carried out local case studies in diverse world regions. The contributors to this volume advance the discussion to a new stage, critically scrutinizing alarmist claims of the first wave of research, probing the historical antecedents of today’s land grabbing, examining large-scale land acquisitions in light of international human rights and investment law, and considering anew longstanding questions in agrarian political economy about forms of dispossession and accumulation and grassroots resistance. Readers of this collection will learn about the impacts of land and water grabbing; the relevance of key theorists, including Marx, Polanyi and Harvey; the realities of China’s involvement in Africa; how contemporary land grabbing differs from earlier plantation agriculture; and how social movements—and rural people in general—are responding to this new threat. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Land, Water and Development

Land, Water and Development PDF Author: Malcolm Newson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134111908
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Tracing the evolution of river basin management and the history of applied hydrology, Newson provides a systematic review of policy and practice, and argues for a sustainable approach to the changing environment of the world's rivers.

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Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251392528
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Legal and Institutional Aspects of Urban and Peri-urban Forestry and Greening

Legal and Institutional Aspects of Urban and Peri-urban Forestry and Greening PDF Author: Lidija Knuth
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251054321
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Overall, urban and peri-urban forestry and greening (UPFG) receives little interest on political agendas despite its importance to society in terms of the social, economic, aesthetic and environmental benefits. This is even more problematic in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. This publication explores the legal and institutional issues related to UPFG on a global level, using case studies to illustrate the varied nature of its application and concluding that further efforts are required to improve existing legal frameworks