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1 online resource (xxi, 263 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Summary |
"New institutions don't come into being by themselves: They have to be organized. On the basis of research from a decade-long, multi-site study of efforts to transform freshwater management in Brazil, Practical Authority asks how new institutional arrangements established by law become operational in practice"-- Provided by publisher. |
Contents |
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Practical Authority, Institution-building, and Entanglement -- Chapter 2 -- Entangled Institutions and Layered Reform Narratives: Governing Water Resources in Historical Context -- Chapter 3 -- Institutional Design in Entangled Settings: How to Make an Unfinished Law -- Chapter 4 -- Practicing Laws: Experiments with Institution Building -- Chapter 5 -- Becoming Committees: Diversity, Problems and Processes -- Chapter 6 -- Diversions of Authority: Power, Perseverance and Struggles over the Control of Water Resources -- Chapter 7 -- Building Practical Authority from Outside the State -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Methodological Narrative -- Appendix 2: List of interviews -- References. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Water-supply -- Brazil -- Management.
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Water-supply. |
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Brazil. |
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Management. |
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Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Brazil.
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Water-supply -- Political aspects. |
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Water resources development -- Political aspects -- Brazil.
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Water resources development -- Political aspects. |
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Water resources development. |
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Hydrology -- Brazil.
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Hydrology. |
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Fresh water -- Brazil.
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Fresh water. |
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Brazil -- Politics and government -- 1985-2002.
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Politics and government. |
Chronological Term |
1985-2002 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Keck, Margaret E.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Abers, Rebecca. Practical authority. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013 9780199985265 (DLC) 2013003846 (OCoLC)844789379 |
ISBN |
9780199985289 (electronic book) |
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0199985286 (electronic book) |
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9780199985265 |
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019998526X |
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9780199985272 |
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0199985278 |
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