Browsing by Subject "Customary law systems"

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  • Customary law systems for water governance in Kenya 

    Gachenga, Elizabeth (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015-07-31)
    In many jurisdictions including Kenya, the term ‘law’ is generally assumed to refer to enacted rules emanating from the state. Consequently, legal systems for water resource governance are considered largely as consisting ...

  • Governing the commons through customary law systems of water governance 

    Gachenga, Elizabeth (CEESP and IUCN, 2014)
    The resilience of customary law systems of natural resource governance in many parts of the world lends credence to Ostrom’s theory on the governance of commons. Ostrom argued that resource users who enjoy relative ...