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Community-based water law and water resources management reform in developing countries : rationale, contents and key messages / Barbara van Koppen ... [et al.] -- Understanding legal pluralism in water and land rights : lessons from Africa and Asia / Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Leticia Nkonya -- Community priorities for water rights : some conjectures on assumptions, principles and programmes / Bryan Bruns -- Dispossession at the interface of community-based water law and permit systems / Barbara van Koppen -- Issues in reforming informal water economies of low-income countries : examples from India and elsewhere / Tushaar Shah -- Legal pluralism and the politics of inclusion : recognition and contestation of local water rights in the Andes / Rutgerd Boelens, Rocio Bustamante and Hugo de Vos -- Water rights and rules, and management in spate irrigation systems in Eritrea, Yemen and Pakistan / Abraham Mehari, Frank Van Steenbergen and Bart Schultz -- Local institutions for wetland management in Ethiopia : sustainability and state intervention / Alan B. Dixon and Adrian P. Wood -- Indigenous systems of conflict resolution in Oromia, Ethiopia / Desalegn Chemeda Endossa ... [et al.] -- Kenya's new water law : an analysis of the implications of Kenya's Water Act, 2002, for the rural poor / Albert Mumma -- Coping with history and hydrology : how Kenya's settlement and land tenure patterns shape contemporary water rights and gender relations in water / Leah Onyango ... [et al.] -- Irrigation management and poverty dynamics : case study of the Nyando Basin in western Kenya / Brent Swallow, Leah Onyango and Ruth Meinzen-Dick -- If government failed, how are we to succeed? : the importance of history and context in present-day irrigation reform in Malawi / Anne Ferguson and Wapulumuka Mulwafu -- A legal-infrastructural framework for catchment apportionment / Bruce Lankford and Willie Mwaruvanda -- Intersections of law, human rights and water management in Zimbabwe : implications for rural livelihoods / Bill Derman ... [et al.].