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Schnegg, Michael ORCID: 0000-0001-9240-8836 and Bollig, Michael (2016). Institutions put to the test: Community-based water management in Namibia during a drought. J. Arid. Environ., 124. S. 62 - 72. LONDON: ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 1095-922X

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Abstract

In Namibia, rural water governance has changed profoundly during the last two decades. Today, in many rural communities, user associations administer water and set the rules for management practices. Their rules typically define boundaries and specify contributions that vary for members and outsiders. When the rains failed in 2012-14, the mobility of people and herds increased and put the newly formed institutional regimes to a critical test. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in seven communities, we examine whether and how management regimes were either altered or applied. The results indicate that cultural models of kinship and reciprocity took priority over formal agreements during the drought. Non-adherence to formalized practices and to rules of excluding outsiders also expresses a certain resistance to the interpretation of water as an economic good. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schnegg, Michael UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-9240-8836 UNSPECIFIED Bollig, Michael UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-293644
DOI:	10.1016/j.jaridenv.2015.07.009
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Arid. Environ.
Volume:	124
Page Range:	S. 62 - 72
Date:	2016
Publisher:	ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1095-922X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language NATURAL-RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; LIVESTOCK; PASTORALISTS; PERCEPTIONS; GOVERNANCE; SYSTEMS; COMMONS; AFRICA; LANDS Multiple languages Ecology; Environmental Sciences Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/29364