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Agade, Kennedy Mkutu, Anderson, David, Lugusa, Klerkson and Owino, Evelyne Atieno (2022) Water governance, institutions and conflicts in the Maasai rangelands. The Journal of Environment & Development, 31 (4). pp. 395-420. doi:10.1177/10704965221123390 ISSN 1070-4965.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/10704965221123390
Abstract
Water scarcity in Narok county, Kenya may be attributed to demographic pressures, land-use changes, environmental degradation and the effects of climate change. This article combines methodologies from history and political science to investigate how local communities cope with water scarcity. In so doing, we consider how institutions, both indigenous and modern, mitigate conflict over access to and control of water sources. Cases are presented from sites of irrigation and development projects or plans. We find that climate change has little to do with water conflicts in Narok, but that more important factors are privatisation and commoditisation of formerly common-pool resources, and challenges and failures in modern water governance in mediating between Maasai (pastoralist) and non-Maasai (agriculturalist) groups. Indigenous governance institutions still have a place in conflict resolution and environmental protection.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Water-supply -- Kenya -- Maasailand -- Management, Drought management -- Kenya -- Maasailand, Environmental policy -- Kenya -- Maasailand | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Journal of Environment & Development | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1070-4965 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 31 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 395-420 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/10704965221123390 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Agade KM, Anderson D, Lugusa K, Owino EA. Water Governance, Institutions and Conflicts in the Maasai Rangelands. The Journal of Environment & Development. September 2022. doi:10.1177/10704965221123390 Copyright © 2022 (Copyright Holder). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. http://journals.sagepub.com). | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 September 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 September 2022 | ||||||||
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