Coping with history and hydrology: How Kenya's settlement and land tenure patterns shape contemporary water rights and gender relations in water

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 173-194

  Onyango, Leah ^a   Swallow, Brent ^b   Roy, Jessica L ^b   Meinzen Dick, Ruth ^c  

^a MASENO UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^c INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community participation; Gender roles; Integrated natural resources management; Land tenure; Legal pluralism; Policy framework; Property rights; Water tenure

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349130666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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