Local Initiatives: Collective Water Management in Rural Bangladesh

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This book illustrates how people in rural Bangladesh, without any institutional or material support, manage their water resources to make their environment safer or more productive. Case studies of over seven hundred local initiatives show that people have an underestimated capacity to design, construct, maintain and operate relatively complex water management systems and to mobilize large amounts of human, material and financial resources. They are neither passive victims of their environment, nor merely responding or reacting to programmes or services provided by ‘outside’ agencies. It was found, however, that the capacity to organize is much higher in some regions of Bangladesh than in others. This leads the author to examine conditions under which people get together to pursue common goals through a systematic, comparative analysis of the four regions covered by the research project. The findings are further reviewed against the backdrop of academic and policy debates on collective action, participation, and management of common property resources.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jennifer E. Duyne

Jennifer E. Duyne, who obtained her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Zurich, Began her research in 1983 into the impact of small credit programmes on informal credit systems in rural Bangladesh. After a number of postings in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Southern India, studying the social organization or irrigated agriculture, she returned to Bangladesh in 1992, working as a social development project, funded by the Government of the Netherlands, until 1998. within that framework, she became responsible for a national research project on indigenous water management practices in rural Bangladesh upon which this book is based. At present, Dr. Duyne is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich and at the University of Applied Sciences in Lugano (Switzerland).

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Title
Local Initiatives: Collective Water Management in Rural Bangladesh
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8124602662
Length
xxii+290p., Tables; Plates; Maps; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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#Bangladesh