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Title Canals and communities : small-scale irrigation systems / edited by Jonathan B. Mabry
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Arizona studies in human ecology
Arizona studies in human ecology.
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
Summary Includes material on irrigation in Mexico, Somalia, Morocco, the Andes, Bali, Cape Verde, Iran, and Sri Lanka
Analysis Social & cultural anthropology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
In Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
Subject Irrigation water -- Developing countries -- Management -- Congresses
Water-supply, Agricultural -- Developing countries -- Management -- Congresses
Water rights -- Developing countries -- Congresses
48.34 irrigation, drainage.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Irrigation water -- Management
Water rights
Water-supply, Agricultural -- Management
Wasserrecht
Bewässerungssystem
Wasserversorgung
Irrigatie (waterhuishouding)
Eau d'irrigation -- Pays en voie de développement -- Congrès.
Approvisionnement agricole en eau -- Pays en voie de développement -- Congrès.
Eau -- Droit -- Pays en voie de développement -- Congrès.
Developing countries
Entwicklungsländer
Tucson <Ariz., 1990>
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Mabry, Jonathan B., 1961-
ISBN 9780816548927
0816548927