Canals and Communities : Small-Scale Irrigation Systems /

Includes material on irrigation in Mexico, Somalia, Morocco, the Andes, Bali, Cape Verde, Iran, and Sri Lanka.

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Other Authors: Mabry, Jonathan B., 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1996.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • The ethnology of local irrigation / Jonathan B. Mabry
  • La gente es muy perra: conflict and cooperation over irrigation water in Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico / Thomas E. Sheridan
  • Dhasheeg agriculture in Jubba valley, Somalia / Catherine Besteman
  • The dry and the drier: cooperation and conflict in Moroccan irrigation / John R. Welch
  • The political ecology of irrigation in an Andean peasant community / Paul H. Gelles
  • Rapid rural appraisal of arid land irrigation: a Moroccan example / John R. Welch, Jonathan B. Mabry, Hsain Ilahiane
  • Simulation modeling of Balinese irrigation / J. Stephen Lansing
  • Institutional innovation in small-scale irrigation networks: a Cape Verdean case / Mark W. Langworthy, Timothy J. Finan
  • Qanats and rural societies: sustainable agriculture and irrigation cultures in contemporary Iran / Michael E. Bonine.
  • The utility of tradition in Sri Lankan bureaucratic irrigation: the case of the Kirindi Oya project / Pamela C. Stanbury
  • The relevance of indigenous irrigation: a comparative analysis of sustainability / Jonathan B. Mabry, David A. Cleveland.