Water, rules and gender: Water rights in an indigenous irrigation system, Marakwet, Kenya

Adams, W.Watson, E.Mutiso, S.2016-04-192016-04-191997Development and Change 28 (4): 707-7300012-155X1467-7660http://hdl.handle.net/10919/67365Metadata only recordThis article presents a study carried out in a region in Northern Kenya. It examines the complex rules governing interactions between resource management and the management of social relations. Moral, social and natural orders can play a role in rights and allocation of water at the same time that taboos might add restrictions on those rights.text/plainen-USIn CopyrightSocial impactsNatural resource managementGenderWater managementWaterSocial relationsWater rightsWater, rules and gender: Water rights in an indigenous irrigation system, Marakwet, KenyaAbstract