In many common law jurisdictions, legal systems for water resource governance are conceived primarily in the context of statutory law. However, in many cases water resource development and management, particularly at the ...

This book approaches water and sanitation as an African gender and human rights issue. Empirical case studies from Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe show how coexisting international, national and local regulations ...

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 ...