Browsing by Author "Boelens, R."

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  • Anomalous water rights and the politics of normalization: Collective water control and privatization policies in the Andean region
    Boelens, R.; Zwarteveen, M. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005)
    In this chapter Boelens and Zwarteveen deliver a sharp critique of the privatization of water rights in Andean countries. It is argued that historically, privatization has been used to concentrate power into the hands of the already powerful at the expense of communities that derive their livelihoods from common property management schemes. The authors are particularly critical of the Chilean example executed under the Pinochet regime and the continuing advice from the World Bank and other IFI's to continually adopt policies that abolish existing community systems and move towards much larger private systems.
  • Legal complexity in the analysis of water rights and water resources management
    Roth, D.; Boelens, R.; Zwarteveen, M. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005)
    The introductory chapter to a book on water relations, the article opens with a critique of the modern tendency to embrace a universal rights-based framework for conceptualizing water provision. Roth, et al. argue that water use is an intensely local issue that merits address through contextually adapted solutions. The chapter moves on to a discussion of water policy, water use, and solutions to water disputes on a more general scale.
  • Special law: Recognition and denial of diversity in Andean water control
    Boelens, R.; Gentes, I.; Gil, A. G.; Urteaga, P. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005)
    This chapter focuses on special law, which is used throughout the Andean region to delineate legislative constructs for how policies are intended to affect indigenous peoples. Specifically, the authors focus on the use of special law in regard to water resource management and draw out the argument that while these "recognition policies" are intended to act as a bridge between local and national governance, throughout history such provisions have failed to heal relations between the two systems. This is highlighted through a discussion of the Peruvian and Chilean examples.