The battlefield of water rights: Rule making amidst conflicting normative frameworks in the Ecuadorian Highlands

Human Organization

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 343-355

  Boelens, Rutgerd ^a   Doornbos, Bernita ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FEPP (Fondo Ecuatoriano Populorum Progressio)   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Andes; Ecuador; Empowerment; Irrigation; Legal pluralism; Peasant and indigenous organizations; Water rights

Indexed keywords

EMPOWERMENT; IRRIGATION; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RURAL POLITICS; WATER RESOURCE;

CECELES; ECUADOR;

EID: 0035694603     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.60.4.d3v194qmcael7ett     Document Type: Article

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