Canals and Communities : Small-Scale Irrigation Systems / edited by Jonathan B. Mabry.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Arizona studies in human ecology | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1996Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource: illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780816548927
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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.
Summary: Includes material on irrigation in Mexico, Somalia, Morocco, the Andes, Bali, Cape Verde, Iran, and Sri Lanka.
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Revision of the proceedings of a workshop held at the University of Arizona Apr. 29, 1990.

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.

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

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