Dispossession at the interface of community-based water law and permit systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 46-64

  Van Koppen, Barbara ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chile; Customary water rights; Formal water rights; Gender; Informal; Permits; Poverty; Roman water law; Sub Saharan Africa; Water law; Water trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957018898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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