Sharing Water Irrigation and Water Management in the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya

by Kreutzmann, Hermann

• ISBN13: 9780195791594
• ISBN10: 0195791592
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This interdisciplinary collection brings together the writings of experts from different countries on irrigation and water managemet in the mountainous regions of South and Central Asia. Most knowledge about water in these regions comes out of oral traditions. The case studies in this volume try to preserve some of this knowledge and present it to a wider audience.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
List of figures	xi
List of tables	xiii
List of photographs	xv
Abbreviations and acronyms	xix
Preface	xxi
Abstracts	1	(8)
Introduction	9	(4)
Water towers of humankind: Approaches and perspectives for research on hydraulic resources in the mountains of South and Central Asia	13	(19)
Hermann Kreutzmann
Some notes on the contribution of the study of irrigation to the history of Central Asia	32	(23)
Vincent Fourniau
Social organization and irrigation systems in the Khot Valley, Eastern Hindukush	55	(18)
Israr-ud-din
Irrigation practice in Yasin, Northern Areas of Pakistan	73	(17)
Georg Stober
Water management in mountain oases of the Karakoram	90	(26)
Hermann Kreutzmann
Minority strategies to water access: The Dom in Hunza, Northern Areas of Pakistan	116	(16)
Anna T. Schmid
Bridging institutional gaps in irrigation management. The Post-``ibex-horn'' innovations in Northern Pakistan	132	(14)
Hussain Wali Khan
Izhar Ali Hunzai
Notes on irrigation and the legal system in Ladakh: The Buddhist `Brog-Pa	146	(17)
Rohit Vohra
Traditional oases of Ladakh: A case study of equity in water management	163	(21)
Valerie Labbal
Farmer participation in irrigation management in state-sponsored minor irrigation systems in the Indian Himalayas	184	(26)
Andrew E. Manzardo
Irrigation in Dolpo: An example of water management in a steppic zone of Northern Nepal	210	(29)
Corneille Jest
Marc Polge de Combret
Natural conditions and hazards for irrigation in the arid Himalaya of Upper Mustang District, Nepal	239	(20)
Monique Fort
Drylands irrigation in a wetlands area: The example of Aslewacaur in Central Nepal	259	(13)
Olivia Aubriot
Jean-Luc Sabatier
Legal aspects of Water rights in Bhutan.	272	(7)
Corneille Jest
Index	279