TY  - GEN
T1  - Liquid relations : contested water rights and legal complexity
A2  - Roth, Dik, 1954-
A2  - Boelens, Rutgerd
A2  - Zwarteveen, Margreet
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick, N.J. ; London
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2005
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn228171102
AB  - Water management plays an increasingly critical role in national and international policy agendas. Growing scarcity, overuse, and pollution, combined with burgeoning demand, have made socio-political and economic conflicts almost unavoidable. Proposals to address water shortages are usually based on two key assumptions: (1) water is a commodity that can be bought and sold and (2) "states," or other centralized entities, should control access to water. Liquid Relations criticizes these assumptions from a socio-legal perspective. Eleven case studies examine laws, distribution, and irrigation in regions around the world, including the United States, Nepal, Indonesia, Chile, Ecuador, India, and South Africa. In each case, problems are shown to be both ecological and human-made-the locally specific outcomes of social, political, and environmental histories. The essays also consider the ways that gender, ethnicity, and class differences influence water rights and control. In the concluding chapter, the editors draw on the essays' findings to offer an alternative approach to water rights and water governance issues. By showing how issues like water scarcity and competition are embedded in specific resource use and management histories, this volume highlights the need for analyses and solutions that are context-specific rather than universal
OP  - 313
NO  - Originated in "a panel on water rights and legal pluralism at the XIIIth International Congress on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism in Chang Mai, Thailand in 2002"--Acknowledgements
CN  - K3496 .L57 2005eb
SN  - 0813537843
SN  - 9780813537849
SN  - 9780813536743
SN  - 081353674X
SN  - 9780813536750
SN  - 0813536758
SN  - 128131658X
SN  - 9781281316585
KW  - Water rights : Congresses.
KW  - Water-supply : International cooperation : Congresses.
KW  - Droits sur les eaux : Congrès.
KW  - Eau : Approvisionnement : Coopération internationale : Congrès.
KW  - Droits sur les eaux.
KW  - water rights.
KW  - LAW : Real Estate.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : Hispanic American Studies.
KW  - Water rights
KW  - Water-supply : International cooperation
KW  - proceedings (reports)
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings.
KW  - Actes de congrès.
ER  -