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| Title: | The Hydro-Politics of the Okavango Delta: Property Rights and the Management Implications of Competing Land and Water Use Strategies |
| Author: | Hasler, Richard |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Periodical: | Botswana Notes and Records (ISSN 0525-5090) |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Pages: | 73-83 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Botswana Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | river basin organizations natural resources customary law land law water management land use agricultural land Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Law, Human Rights and Violence Politics and Government Environment, Ecology Okavango River Delta (Botswana) water supply Right of property Political aspects Resources management |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40980267 |
| Abstract: | The management of unique wetlands such as the Okavango Delta (northern Botswana) is determined by the competing de facto and de jure claims on water and on water dependent natural resources. The claims can be categorized as international, national, district and local assertions of access rights. These claims pose a common property resource management dilemma, because exclusion of access to water and wetland resources is problematic. Wherever exclusion is problematic a de facto common property resource management dilemma exists, because the various competing claims have to be negotiated sociopolitically. Understanding the competing claims and property rights, the levels of management involved and the institutions which are responsible for decisionmaking and enforcement of claims is a critical but often neglected step in management planning. This paper argues that the Okavango Delta is best managed by a joint jurisdiction regime involving multiple stakeholders at local, district, national and international levels. Key institutions dealing with the co-management of resources in the Delta are identified as possible models for future institution building. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |
