Disputing The Floodplains

Author : Tobias Haller
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004185372
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disputing the Floodplains written by Tobias Haller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Floodplains in semi-arid areas are important for local livelihoods but are under pressure and contested. Case studies from Mali, Cameroon, Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana present the change in the management of common pool resources in these wetlands and provide a comparative new-institutionalist analysis.

Author : Tobias Haller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739169564
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contested Floodplain written by Tobias Haller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contested Floodplain tells the story of institutional changes in the management of common pool resources (pasture, wildlife, and fisheries) among Ila and Balundwe agro-pastoralists and Batwa fishermen in the Kafue Flats, in southern Zambia. It explains how and why a once rich floodplain area, managed under local common property regimes, becomes a poor man's place and a degraded resource area. Based on social anthropological field research, the book explains how well working institutions in the past, regulating communal access to resources, have turned into state property and open access or privatization. As a basis for analysis, the author uses Elinor Ostrom's design principles for well working institutions and the approach of the New Institutionalism by Jean Ensminger. The latter approach focuses on external factors and change in relative prices. It explains how local actors face changing bargaining power and use different ideologies to legitimize and shape resource use regulations. The study focuses on the historic developments taking place since pre-colonial and colonial times up to today. Haller shows how the commons had been well regulated by local institutions in the past, often embedded in religious belief systems. He then explains the transformation from common property to state property since colonial times. When the state is unable to provide well functioning institutions due to a lack in financial income, it contributes to de facto open access and degradation of the commons. The Zambian copper-based economy has faced crisis since 1975, and many Zambians have to look for economic alternatives and find ways to profit from the lack of state control (a paradox of the present-absent state). And while the state is absent, external actors use the ideology of citizenship to justify free use of resources during conflicts with local people. Also within Zambian communities, floodplain resources are highly contested, which is illustrated through conflicts over a proposed irrigation scheme in the area. The different actors and interest groups use ideologies such as citizenship vs. being indigenous, ethnic identity vs. class conflict, and modernity vs traditional way of life to legitimize land claims.

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Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural and Beneficial Functions of Floodplains written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donnie L. Daniel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Costs of Errors in Defining a Community's Flood Plain written by Donnie L. Daniel and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protecting Floodplain Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gilbert F. White
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changes in Urban Occupance of Flood Plains in the United States written by Gilbert F. White and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. James Owen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Floodplain Management Handbook written by H. James Owen and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey J. Opperman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520294106
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Floodplains written by Jeffrey J. Opperman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to temperate floodplains -- Hydrology -- Floodplain and geomorphology -- Biogeochemistry -- Ecology: introduction -- Floodplain forests -- Primary and secondary production -- Fish and other vertebrates -- Ecosystem services and floodplain reconciliation -- Floodplains as green infrastructure -- Case studies of floodplain management and reconciliation -- Central Valley floodplains: introduction and history -- Central Valley floodplains today -- Reconciling Central Valley floodplains -- Conclusions: managing temperate floodplains for multiple benefits

Author : Scott Faber
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Borrowed Land written by Scott Faber and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Floodplain Management in the United States: Summary written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: