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Social Capital and Local Water Management in Egypt

Social Capital and Local Water Management in Egypt

Gouda, Dalia M.

Hardcover

EconomicsGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 9774167635
ISBN13: 9789774167638
Publisher: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
Published: Nov 2 2016
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

From the 1980s onward, billions of dollars were poured into irrigation improvement programs in Egypt. These aimed at improving local Nile water management through the introduction of more water-efficient technology and by placing management of the improved systems in the hands of local water user associations. The central premise of most of these programs was that the functioning of such associations could rely on the revival of traditional forms of social capital--social networks, norms, and trust--for their success. Social Capital and Local Water Management in Egypt shows how the far-reaching social changes wrought at the village level in Egypt through the twentieth century rendered such a premise implausible at best and invalid at worst.

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