The symbolic making of a common property resource: History, ecology and locality in a tank-irrigated landscape in South India

Development and Change

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 467-504

  Mosse, David ^a,b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL RELATIONS; SYMBOLIC CAPITAL; TANK IRRIGATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

INDIA, TAMIL NADU;

EID: 0031419462     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00051     Document Type: Article

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