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dc.contributor.authorKomakech, Hans
dc.contributor.authorvan der Zaag, Pieter
dc.contributor.authorvan Koppen, Barbara
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-19T12:52:01Z
dc.date.available2020-03-19T12:52:01Z
dc.date.issued2012-10-01
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2012.196
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.nm-aist.ac.tz/handle/123456789/653
dc.descriptionThis research article published by IWA Publishing, 2012en_US
dc.description.abstractIt has been suggested that the collective action needed for integrated water management at larger spatial scales could be more effective and sustainable if it were built, bottom-up, on the nested arrangements by which local communities have managed their water resources at homestead, plot, village and sub-catchment levels. The up-scaling of such arrangements requires an understanding of why they emerge, how they function and how they are sustained. This paper presents a case study of local level water institutions in Bangalala village in the Makanya catchment, Tanzania. Unlike most research on collective action in which water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity are seen as risks to collective action, this study looked at how they dynamically interact and give rise to interdependencies between water users which facilitate coordination and collective action. The findings are confined to relatively small spatial and social scales, involving irrigators from one village. In such situations there may be inhibitions to unilateral action due to social and peer pressure. Spatial or social proximity may thus be a necessary condition for collective action in water asymmetrical situations to emerge. This points to the need for further research, namely to describe and analyse the dynamics engendered by water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity at larger spatial scales.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIWA Publishingen_US
dc.subjectCanal irrigationen_US
dc.subjectCollective actionen_US
dc.subjectCommon pool resourcesen_US
dc.subjectWater allocationen_US
dc.titleThe dynamics between water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity sustaining canal institutions in the Makanya catchment, Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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