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Disputing the floodplains [electronic resource] : institutional change and the politics of resource management in African wetlands / edited by Tobias Haller ; with a foreword by Elinor Ostrom.

Contributor(s): Haller, TobiasMaterial type: TextTextSeries: African social studies series ; v. 22.Publication details: Boston : Brill, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 452 p.) : ill., mapsISBN: 9789004185371 (electronic bk.); 9004185372 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Water resources development -- Africa | Floodplain management -- Africa | Agriculture | Environmental Studies | Business | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General | Feuchtgebiet | �Uberschwemmungsgebiet | AfrikaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Disputing the floodplains.DDC classification: 333.91/7 LOC classification: HD1699.A1 | D57 2010ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost
Contents:
Cover13; -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps, Tables and Graphs -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter One Institutional Change, Power and Conflicts in the Management of Common-Pool Resources in African Floodplain Ecosystems: An Introduction (Tobias Haller) -- Chapter Two Between Water Spirits and Market Forces: Institutional Changes in the Niger Inland Delta Fisheries among the Somono and Bozo Fishermen of Wandiaka and Daga-Womina (Mali) (Sabrina Beeler St252;cklin and Karin Frei) -- Chapter Three Tax Payments, Democracy and Rent-Seeking Administrators: Common-Pool Resource Management, Power Relations and Conflicts among the Kotoko, Musgum, Fulbe and Arab Choa in the Waza-Logone Floodplain (Cameroon) (Gilbert Fokou) -- Chapter Four Lost Control, Legal Pluralism and Damming the Flood: Changing Institutions among the Musgum and Kotoko of the village Laha239; in the Waza-Logone Floodplain (Cameroon) (Gabriela Landolt) -- Chapter Five From Integrated Slope Management to Fragmented Use: Common-Pool Resources, Institutional Change, and Conflicts in Pangani River Basin, of Same District (Tanzania) (Gimbage Mbeyale) -- Chapter Six Ujamaa-Policies, Open Access and Differential Collective Action: Common-Pool Resource Management, Institutional Change and Conflicts in the Rufiji Floodplain (Tanzania) (Patrick Meroka) -- Chapter Seven "We had cattle and did not fish and hunt anyhow!" Institutional Change and Contested Commons in the Kafue Flats Floodplain (Zambia) (Tobias Haller and Sonja Merten) -- Chapter Eight Promise and Reality of Community Based Natural Resource Management in Botswana: Common-Pool Resource Use and Institutional Change in Ikoga, Okavango Delta (Panhandle) (Roland Saum) -- Chapter Nine Between Open Access, Privatisation and Collective Action: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Change Governing Use of Common-Pool Resources in African Floodplains (Tobias Haller) -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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Cover13; -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps, Tables and Graphs -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter One Institutional Change, Power and Conflicts in the Management of Common-Pool Resources in African Floodplain Ecosystems: An Introduction (Tobias Haller) -- Chapter Two Between Water Spirits and Market Forces: Institutional Changes in the Niger Inland Delta Fisheries among the Somono and Bozo Fishermen of Wandiaka and Daga-Womina (Mali) (Sabrina Beeler St252;cklin and Karin Frei) -- Chapter Three Tax Payments, Democracy and Rent-Seeking Administrators: Common-Pool Resource Management, Power Relations and Conflicts among the Kotoko, Musgum, Fulbe and Arab Choa in the Waza-Logone Floodplain (Cameroon) (Gilbert Fokou) -- Chapter Four Lost Control, Legal Pluralism and Damming the Flood: Changing Institutions among the Musgum and Kotoko of the village Laha239; in the Waza-Logone Floodplain (Cameroon) (Gabriela Landolt) -- Chapter Five From Integrated Slope Management to Fragmented Use: Common-Pool Resources, Institutional Change, and Conflicts in Pangani River Basin, of Same District (Tanzania) (Gimbage Mbeyale) -- Chapter Six Ujamaa-Policies, Open Access and Differential Collective Action: Common-Pool Resource Management, Institutional Change and Conflicts in the Rufiji Floodplain (Tanzania) (Patrick Meroka) -- Chapter Seven "We had cattle and did not fish and hunt anyhow!" Institutional Change and Contested Commons in the Kafue Flats Floodplain (Zambia) (Tobias Haller and Sonja Merten) -- Chapter Eight Promise and Reality of Community Based Natural Resource Management in Botswana: Common-Pool Resource Use and Institutional Change in Ikoga, Okavango Delta (Panhandle) (Roland Saum) -- Chapter Nine Between Open Access, Privatisation and Collective Action: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Change Governing Use of Common-Pool Resources in African Floodplains (Tobias Haller) -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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