Abstract

VELEZ, María Alejandra; RAMOS, Pablo Andrés  and  ALAYON, Laura. Nested institutions for preventingand solving socio-environmental conflicts: management anddistribution of water in CampoAlegre (Huila, Colombia). Cuad. Desarro. Rural [online]. 2011, vol.8, n.67, pp.71-90. ISSN 0122-1450.

This article examines the case of irrigation canal in Campo Alegre Usoigua, Huila, in south western Colombia. From an institutional approach, Community arrangements and formal forms of regulation that have emerged as a set of nested institutions for handling the resource in times of shortage and forpreventing socio-environmental conflicts are studied.

Keywords : socio-environmental conflicts; institutional analysis; management of water resources; social sciences; social interaction; social conflicts; social norms.

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